Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 29 November 2022
586. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Justice the progress to date with the undocumented persons scheme, including a breakdown of those who have applied and have received a decision under both strands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59358/22]
View answerThe General Scheme for the Regularisation of Long Term Undocumented Migrants closed on 31 July 2022. This once in a generation scheme was designed to give long-term undocumented people without a current permission to remain in the State, the chance to regularise their status, access the labour market and begin their path to citizenship.
My Department recorded 6,548 applications in respect of 8,311 people under the scheme.
4,794 decisions have been issued as of the 28 November 2022 to applicants of the scheme.
Of these: 4,654 (97 %) are positive decisions, 94 (2%) are negative decisions, and 46 (1%) applications have been withdrawn by the applicants for various reasons.
All other applications continued to be processed and processing times may vary depending on the complexity of the application. Applications where there is an existing deportation order will require additional processing.
Additionally, the International Protection strand of the Regularisation scheme, which closed on the 07 August 2022, has recorded 3,193 applications up to 25 November 2022, with 1,296 successful decisions issued and an additional 1,007 granted an equivalent permission by the International protection office. A further 396 applications were ineligible and 260 applications withdrawn.
