Immigration group seeks changes to aid families

ONE of the country’s leading migrant support groups called on the Government yesterday to introduce a raft of changes to its immigration policy which is keeping families apart.

Delegates at a major Family Reunification Conference held in Cork heard that many people who have come to live and work in Ireland are being denied the right to live with their children, partners or spouses because of inadequacies in the Irish system.

The policy, coupled with bureaucratic delays, have meant that some people, who have the legal right to live and work in Ireland, face delays of up to three or four years before their family can join them in Ireland.