According to fresh data, immigration to Ireland rose by 5% in 2023 in the year ending in April 2024, reports Breaking News.
According to the European Migration Network (EMN), despite the rise, the number of immigrants is still marginally below the 2007 peak.
According to a 2023 annual assessment of immigration and asylum in Ireland, 58% of the rise was due to immigration from outside the EU or the UK, including Ukrainians, reports Breaking News.
The EMN has highlighted ongoing difficulties and changes in immigration to Ireland.
The increase of industries eligible for employment permits, limited processing and accommodation capacity for foreign protection applications, ongoing labour market shortages, and forced migration patterns are a few of them, reports Breaking News.
Despite a 3% decrease in applications for foreign protection in 2023, the foreign Protection Office had 21,850 outstanding applications at the end of the year due to processing capacity issues.
Compared to the same period in 2022, the number of IPO decisions increased by 90% in 2023, whereas the number of pending decisions increased by 47%, reports Breaking News.
The appeals tribunal’s median processing time decreased from 10.2 months to 5.5 months, however by the end of 2023, there were 359% more applications available due to the volume of appeals received.
In 2023, newcomers from Ukraine were assigned almost 34,000 PPS numbers, which is around half of the 67,000 numbers assigned in 2022.
As in 2022, 28% of immigrants were children, while 48% of arrivals were women, reports Breaking News.
Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection (BoTP) arrivals have grown in all counties since 2022, although they have climbed most in Tipperary (+124%), Sligo (+104%), and Offaly (+102%).
Dublin experienced the smallest rise (+19%), despite having the biggest concentration of BoTPs, reports Breaking News.
All valid residence permits (granted to non-EEA citizens, excluding Ukrainian Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection) increased by 24% in 2023.
Of those, 21% were for education, 19% were for family, 27% were for other reasons, 30% were for work, and 3% were for international protection, reports Breaking News.
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