Do they actually call your Witness as stated on the Passport Identity Verification Form?...."Your application will not be processed until we speak with your witness by telephone"
You cannot pass through immigration. You will need a visa.
Vienna Airport does not have a hotel airside. You can always try to pass through immigration and ask for a visa on exceptional grounds, but it is unlikely you will get it, unless you have compelling reasons to travel without a visa.
Renewing your residence permission only 3 days before expiry is not the best idea. That I am afraid will not be an acceptable explanation. You can always try. Worst case scenario you would simply lose your application fee and there will be no repeal process if you are rejected, but you are always fr...
Units still exist. Each unit handles a different part of these applications. The only difference is that they have stopped asking people to send new applications to a particular unit, because there is absolutely no point. There is an initial processing team that will do the initial scan and pre-chec...
Minister Simon Harris has announced closure of the Immigrant Investor Programme as of close of business tomorrow, 15/02/2023. Existing applications will not be affected. Ongoing applications that have been created but not formally submitted will be given a 3-month window to finalise and submit any o...
Link below. If you need to be outside of the country for an extended period, I would suggest that you print this page and bring it with you when you come back to Ireland. Some border officers are not always up-to-date on these policies. https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/documents-forma...
Since you mentioned 10 years residence permit, I presume you are referring to the permanent residency rights under EU Treaty. In that case, it’s 2 consecutive years. If you have not yet obtained a permanent residency permit, you can only be out of the country for 6 months in a rolling 12-month period.
You cannot fill in that gap. You simply wait for a few more days until you have 5 years of residence.
P.S. you can fill any gap due to COVID - so the gap between your 4th and 5th gap can be reduced to zero by extending your 4th stamp’s expiry date or your 5th stamp’s start date.
I just saw this on my social media that one of my solicitor friend posted an approval letter from CMU5 for their client’s application back in 2021. The letter is dated 1 Feb 2023. This means a March or April ceremony is likely.
If you couldn’t get a straight answer from their email within a few days (they are much faster to respond now - last time I contacted them they replied to me on the same day - twice), just select the normal EU Treaty and do all the explanations in one of the note box. That way you won’t have to pay ...
UK is no longer part of the EU and therefore EU Treaty Rights no longer apply. The Withdrawal Agreement merely preserved some rights of EU nationals if they have been living in the UK before Brexit happened. UK nationals (and any other nationals) living outside of the UK are not covered by the agree...
Where did you send your application? Do you have an application reference number?
If answers to both questions are yes, it’s an easy call for you - you simply send a new letter to the same address, quoting your reference number and some proof of ID and ask your application to be withdrawn.
Stamp 4D is for family member of UK nationals. The de facto application itself doesn't have anything to do with the stamp number. They simply tell you in the end which stamp you will be given, if it's granted.
Last time I heard the application still takes around a year.
That is completely incorrect. INIS (as well as immigration authorities in all EU countries) cannot remove a person while an active application is in progress. https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/residence/documents-formalities/non-eu-family-members-residence-card/index_en.htm The authorities shoul...
They are *usually* punctual but from time to time there are delays. There isn’t much you can do anyway. You are considered having a valid permission while your application is in progress, but I understand it’s hard to explain these types of things to some companies. All you can do is to keep chasing...
As has been explained to you, if you were exercising EU Treaty Rights before you became an Irish citizen, and you continue doing the same thing you were doing before after naturalisation (work, study or being self-sufficient), you and your family still qualify for EU Treaty rights. There is no ambig...
I can't exercise EU rights anymore if I am Irish too, this is 100% confirmed. I looked at the dependant form but it mentions ages of 16-18 or "23 in full time education". I focused on the first bit only but I think now that "23 in full time education" could also cover a 12yr old? That is 100% incor...
I’m not a legal expert and @obie is probably more suited in these areas. As far as I understand, the Chenchooliah case is focused on procedural correctness - that is, what procedures and legislations can be used to remove a person. The preliminary findings on that was the minister used wrong procedu...
Scorecards do not apply to minors, as they cannot obtain most of the required documents mentioned in the scorecard. Which table did it say minors need to have 150 points per year by submitting things like EDS or P60?
Some countries require their citizens to always use their country’s passport to enter and exit the country, and some have requirements to check that the person has a valid permission to enter the destination country. For example, if you are a US-Irish dual citizen and you are flying from the US to I...
If she is *employed* by the umbrella company, that is fine. This means, the umbrella company is the contractor and the umbrella company invoices her actual company for any work she has done for the actual company. It essentially means, the umbrella company is paying her salaries, not the actual comp...
The PRSI Class does not directly relate to a person's immigration status. In fact, Revenue seldom talks to INIS. As long as Revenue can collect taxes, in most cases they don't really keep a close eye on a person's immigration status. PRSI Class A *usually* covers most of employees, directly employed...
Yeah it’s way too early to speculate. Usually there will be 3-4 ceremonies spread across the whole year, but it depends on a lot of things (availability of the Minister, number of applications received, number of applications reviewed and approved, availability of the venue etc).
