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by Brigid from Ireland » Sun Apr 13, 2014 10:45 pm
Easiest country is Ireland, as you speak the language.
Use your UK passport to get an Irish pps number for yourself,and a job is better than study, both job and study combined are actually the best idea if you can afford cost of study.
If you can get a visitor visa for mum/dad/brother to visit you in the UK, then all travel together to Ireland, with passports and proof of relationship in the form of your birth certs. It is good if they have proof they lived with you for a few months in UK, so they join UK library/religious services/open bank account, get letters at your home in UK, as proof they are in UK with you. You put money in their UK bank account to show financial dependence, they take it out once a week or fortnight to show they need to spend it for cost of living.
You get NHS card and EHIC card - european health insurance card- for yourself before you leave UK.
Then on arrival in Ireland you ask immigration official for visa for parents, as you wish to work in Ireland, need passport and birth certs and nothing else for first three month visa. They get three month visa at first, then after three months you give payslip and proof of renting home in all names and they get six month visa and at the end of nine months you give more payslips and they get 5 year visa. It is important that they join things in Ireland like library/religious services so that person outside family can confirm they are living in Ireland.
Both parents/brother also apply for pps number on first week in Ireland, and also apply for Drugs payment scheme card as your dependents.
Works best for parents, as they are old and dependent, not so good for brother/sister unless young and under age 21, but you can always try for brother also, especially if he has any medical condition which means he needs care or help from you.
As a UK citizen, if you or your wife gives birth in Ireland the child gets Irish citizenship automatically, and this helps also, as there is now a family member who is an Irish citizen and needs parents and grandparents for care of infant Irish citizen. Infant Irish citizen has strong rights to keep parents here, and can help with grandparents also, as if grandparents are refused visa parents may need to leave Ireland and this deprives Irish baby of right to live in Ireland. Irish citizen baby cannot be deprived of right to live in Ireland by putting parents in position where they must leave Ireland to care for grandparents.
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