Immigrants unable to renew permits over admin blunder
The Minister for Justice, Dermot Ahern has admitted to the Dáil he is “aware of difficulties” between two arms of his department: the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) and the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) in Dublin.
Parents of Irish-born children, who have to renew these permits every three years. were being turned away by gardaí this year even though INIS had taken advertisements in newspapers last December saying that GNIB and local immigration offices were now taking charge of processing the permits. Up to 17,000 immigrants have this IBC/05 status due to their children’s Irish birth.
