Residency rights after Zambrano ruling of most concern to migrants

RESIDENCY rights for foreign parents of Irish citizen children was the biggest issue concerning migrants this year, said the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI).

Launching statistics for the first six months of this year, the ICI said the Zambrano judgment led to almost 800 calls, compared with 286 calls on this issue for the same period last year.

In March, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that a non-EU national parent of an EU citizen child has the right to reside within an EU member state and to be granted a work permit.