Ireland welcomes foreign students who want to study English. The student visa gives us permission to work for 20 hours per week and we must have €3,000 in our bank account and have health insurance. Dublin is a great city. But as soon as I got here the dream was less than perfect.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has held out hope for 55,000 undocumented Irish living in the United States, telling representatives from Congress — where legislation on the issue has stalled — to “get on with it”.