“We have waited too long; we desperately need the department to fund this,” says Shay L’Estrange, coordinator with Ballyfermot Traveller Action Project.
Immigrant graduates have to prove they found, or tried to find, a good job in their first year after graduation to get permission to stay for a second year. But they don’t know what evidence counts.
Talk of publishing inspection reports has been welcomed by those working in the sector, but using a private company to do the inspections has also raised questions.
When Emily Waszak lost her husband to Covid-19 last year she went into self-isolation with her grief. On top of that, she had to worry about her immigration status.
Of those who’d been in collisions, more than half of those asked said they’d collided with vehicles, while more than a quarter said they’d been alone but hit a pothole or bollard, or the like.
International students can end up working as healthcare assistants as they study. Some who want to keep doing it once they’ve graduated, though, find the immigration system won’t let them.
