Over 850 non-EU parents get residency (het effect van het Zambrano-arrest in Ierland)
MORE THAN 850 non-EU parents of Irish-citizen children have been granted residency in Ireland since a landmark European court judgment last year, while six people who were previously deported have been granted visas to re-enter the State. The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled last March that the non-EU parents of EU-citizen children must be allowed to live and work in that EU state. Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has confirmed that more than 850 people have been granted residency in Ireland since then. These were out of 1,000 cases that have already been processed by his department as a result of the judgment. He said the decisions were taken “in the best interests of the welfare of eligible minor Irish citizen children”. Another 700 cases are outstanding. In approximately half of those cases the department has requested further documentation or clarification from the applicants before their cases can be progressed. This number does not include other non-EU parents ...