Leaving DP – New Horizon Athlone

Qualifications Recognition

The Qualifications and Quality Institute of Ireland (QQI) offer awards in the following areas. Click on the graphic to expand it. Recognition Agreements exist between…

Social Welfare

When you are granted refugee or subsidiary protection status or permission to remain, you should apply for any social welfare payments for which you are…

Employment

You have the right to work, so you may find the Citizen’s Information document on looking for work and getting a job helpful. Your local…

Housing

If you have been living in a direct provision accommodation centre, you will have to leave that centre and move into other accommodation. This could…

Getting Documentation

GNIB certificate and stamp 4 Obtain a Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) certificate of registration and stamp 4. This stamp allows you to work and…

Leaving the Asylum Process

Congratulations! You have passed through the most difficult stage of the process and now have your refugee status or subsidiary protection status recognised. You now…

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