Figures high despite accelerated processing system from so-called safe countries introduced almost two years ago
Fencing is secured around the International Protection Office in Dublin after tents in which asylum seekers had been sleeping were removed. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaillare awaiting a first instance decision on their application despite Government moves to fast-track the cases of people from some countries, official figures show.
I visited Singapore to see why it is ranked as the top education system in the world. Here’s what I learned Last month, Ms McEntee said Nigeria to the list despite it not being classified as a safe country of origin. This was due to new rule providing that people from the country with the highest number of applicants will be subject to the accelerated process. Some 2,000 people from Nigeria have sought international protection in the State this year, around one third of all applicants.
The Garda National Immigration Bureau conducted checkpoint on the M1 motorway between October 9th and 13th last, stopping buses travelling between Belfast and Dublin. In all, 25 people were detected entering the State without visas or identity documents. A total of 25 people were detected entering the State illegally, without the relevant visas or travel documents. All were subsequently refused leave to land and returned to the UK by ferry to Holyhead and by train to Belfast .
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