monte wrote:increasing the time requirement before being eligible to apply for naturalization is a terrible terrible idea, it doesn't really help anyone,
look at Canada a country of 34 millions, in 2010 the legal immigrants were 284,000 and the time before application for citizenship is 3 years and the processing time is 1 yr, isn't that amazing.
What purpose would increasing the residency requirement serve? There has been a progressive decline in the number of immigrants of all categories arriving in Ireland since around 2006, it certainly doesn't look like the trend is going to change soon. One can deduce that most of the people who arrived here at the peak of immigration inflow would have applied by now. So, the argument about using it as an intake control measure is flawed. On the contrary, the current reduction in applications gives the DoJ an advantage to streamline the process over a reasonable period of time.Eireann wrote: Interesting link below...
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ire ... 40735.html
Any opinion Re: New increased residency requirement for Naturalisation?
The Garda vetting office will be overwhelmed because administrative ineptitude and existing Jurassic bureaucracy means that all applications for naturalization have to be physically sent in to the GVO for verifications and sent back to the naturalization office. Same goes for the Social welfare reports. This is not only a needless time wasting exercise but an expensive one at that. The irony of the issue is that these are all agencies under the aegis of the department of Justice and law Reform, overseen by the same minister. What does it take to second a Garda vetting officer permanently into the naturalization office. The information required are on the computers aren't they? Those who have had to do international travel and have needed to obtain Police clearance certificate will attest to the fact such certificates can be obtained from the local Garda superintendence office usually within a week. It is currently taking up to a year in some cases to have police clearance cert back from the GVO, yet the DoJ had opted for the more bureaucratically latent option.
As long as the current self preserving silo arrangements continue to exist in government agencies, there will be very little change. Alan Shatter certainly knows what and where the problem lies with current Irish immigration process at all stages. No one has articulated same better than he did a few months ago
http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?i ... hip#g242.0
The balls are in his courts now, the question remains: has he got 'one'?
9jeirean
this is a joke, who are they trying to fool??
From looking at the spreadsheet, there appear to be a few people who received responses fairly promptly, thus making the actual wait for the average 5-years residency applicant longer than 25 months (mid-2009 is now close to being 24 months ago....)