A Guide to the International Protection Procedure

Gerry Callaghan 2021-03-03

United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) have just published a guide to the International Protection Procedure in Ireland.

It’s available in the following 20 languages.

Albanian / Shqip	Amharic / አማርኛ	Arabic / العربية
Bengali / বাঙালি	Chinese / 中文	English
Farsi / فارسی	French / Français	Georgian / ქართული
Kurdish / کوردی	Pashto / پښتو	Portuguese / Português
Punjabi / ਪੰਜਾਬੀ	Romanian / Limba română	Russian / Русский
Somali / Soomaali	Spanish / Español	Swahili / Kiswahili
Turkish / Türkçe	Urdu / اردو

Available in thse languages

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FAQ’s

We are a front line refugee support group mainly working on the Lissywollen Direct Provision site in Athlone. Our focus is on providing information and help to the 300 (on average) residents living there.

We also work on the Temple Direct Provision site in Horseleap, Moate.

Everyone in the DP sites in Athlone and Temple is what is described as a ‘Convention’ refugee. People who have arrived in Ireland under a United Nations resettlement program are known as ‘Programme’ refugees.

Convention refugees are people who have made their own way to Ireland and have applied for recognition of refugee status when they arrive.

Various official and unofficial routes and methods are used to travel to Ireland. These change continually, depending on weather conditions and enforcement levels at crossings.

On arrival people are normally housed for a few weeks in Baleskin, near Dublin airport. They are then dispersed to various direct provision centres around the country.

People can get protection if they meet the conditions set out in The United Nations Convention on Protection of Refugees.

See Definition of a Refugee

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