Action over refusal to allow girl return

A Chinese couple living and working here are challenging the minister for justice’s refusal to allow their Irish-born 3-year-old daughter return here to live with them after staying with her grandparents in China.

Jiayi Shao was refused permission earlier this year to re-enter the country after being sent to stay with her grandparents in 2009 when both her parents were working and studying.

Meijiao Yu and her husband Xiao Shao, legally resident in Clondalkin, Dublin, claim the family has been torn apart as a result of the decision.