‘I just want my decision. Yes or No?’

Sustained on subsistence payments while barred from working, many asylum seekers have spent years in legal and economic limbo. Scott Millar reports.

ON Tuesday morning Caesar Carlos, 33, travelled from Monaghan to the main entrance of the Reception and Integration Agency (RIA) centre at Mosney.

He was eagar to show his nine month old son’s new RIA asylum seeker identity card.