PEOPLE living and working here who have applied for citizenship have a high rejection rate often for seemingly petty reasons.

MORE than 100 married couples face enforced separation after being warned that their non-European spouses had entered Ireland illegally and would be deported, it emerged yesterday.

AN amnesty is effectively being granted to non-national parents of Irish children as it emerged more than 11,000 have been told they can stay in the State.

Immigrants working in Ireland are being treated more like economic units than people, seminar delegates were told today.