Migrants living in Cork City waiting five months for residence permit appointments

Migrants rights group calls for plan to deal with backlog

Fiona Hurley of Nasc: 'The GNIB office in Anglesea Street, Cork City, is simply insufficiently resourced to deal with the backlog of cases that have continued to build since registration was suspended during covid-19.'

Immigrants living and working in Cork City are waiting nearly five months to receive an appointment to process their residence permit cards.

Migrants rights group Nasc said a clear timeline was needed as to when non-EEA immigrants — people who require a visa to live in Ireland — could carry out the renewal processes online and a plan was required to deal with the current extensive backlog.