FAQs
- Q: What is a Refugee?
A: A Refugee is a person who -
Is outside of the country of his/her nationality and has a well-founded fear of being persecuted on the basis of: race, nationality, religion, political opinion, membership of a particular social group, and is unwilling to seek/unable to obtain protection of his/her own State.
If you apply for asylum at an Airport, Port, Garda Station, or the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner, you have a right to remain temporarily in Ireland until your application for asylum has been considered and a decision taken on your application.
- Q: Can I work while I await a decision on my application?
A: You are not entitled to seek work in the State while you await the outcome of your application.
- Q: What is Leave to Remain?
A: Leave to Remain is permission granted to you to remain in the State. It is granted at the discretion of the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. It may be granted, for example, if you do not meet fully the requirements of the definition of a refugee, but the Minister decides you should be allowed to remain in the State for humanitarian reasons.
- Q: What is Subsidiary Protection?
A: Subsidiary Protection is protection other than refugee status against a real risk of suffering "serious harm" which consists of:
(a) death penalty or execution; or
(b) torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment; or
(c) serious and individual threat to life or person, by reason of indiscriminate violence in situations of international or internal armed conflict.
