Written by Zvezda Vankova, Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group
Hilkka Becker, Immigrant Council of Ireland, MIPEX national partner for Ireland
New Guidelines on Non-EEA Family Reunification were published by the Irish Government on the 31 of December 2013. According to the Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, Alan Shatter, the guidelines “set out a comprehensive statement of Irish national immigration policy in the area of family reunification.” Our MIPEX partner, the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI), evaluated the document as “a positive first step” in developing a policy in this area but one that “leaves several important issues unresolved and will not bring clarity to many Irish citizens and legal migrants who have been separated from their loved ones.”
