Process – New Horizon Athlone

Refugee status and subsidiary protection

Refugee status is designed to protect people who are personally at a high risk to their life or safety if they were returned to their…

Interview Result

The International Protection Office (IPO) interview will produce one of the following three results: Refugee status granted Refugee status refused, Subsidiary protection granted Refugee status…

Restrictions on Asylum Seekers

There are some obligations that asylum seekers must comply with: • You must not leave or attempt to leave the State without the consent of…

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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Refugee status and subsidiary protection

Interview Result

Restrictions on Asylum Seekers

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