Sounds like their new system is working, at least.
Why would Nigerians have a need to seek asylum? Is it not one of the most stable African countries politically and economically?
Not sure how you fix the problem of existing African migrants. The unemployment rate for that group is catastrophic.
Progress, but the situation regarding the number of asylum applications in Ireland in 2023 from Nigeria was an absolute joke particularly when putting it in context of the figures received by other countries.
In 2023, aside from Cyprus, we had by far the highest per capita numbers of asylum applications from Nigeria in the world and it wasn’t even close. Take Canada out of the equation and the comparison of figures between Ireland and other countries is even more concerning.
Numbers or Nigerian asylum applications per country in 2023 (6 countries with highest total numbers)
Country: Population. Annual No. of applications Canada. 41.2 million. 9253
United States. 345.4 million. 4350
Italy. 58.3 million. 3995
Germany. 84.5 million. 2357
France. 66.5 million. 2268
Ireland. 5.2 million. 2084
UK. 69.6 million. 1263
Now consider per capita rates;
Ireland = 4.0 applications per 10,000 people
Canada = 2.25 applications per 10,000 people
Italy = 0.7 applications per 10,000 people
France = 0.3 applications per 10,000 people
Germany = 0.3 applications per 10,000 people
UK = 0.18 applications per 10,000 people
* Ultimately, the asylum system here is an absolute mess. Based on the above data the numbers of applications here from Nigeria in 2023 need to be drastically reduced. And of course, considering the distance of ireland to Nigeria and difficulty in travelling here from there, it’s quite clear that this is more about asylum shopping than ‘safety’.
The old system and the stress it put on the civil servants interviewing candidates has literally killed people. Flawed from top to bottom.
It’s crazy seeing these papers go out of their way to write stories about the same shit Russia is paying millions for idiots to consume ‘immigrants, immigrants.. immigrants of different colour.’
People are obsessed.. which is fine. But why is maga and Russia paying millions to ensure problems re obsessed?!
That’s whats throwing me… You think the idiots here aren’t on twitter and YouTube consuming that shite too.
Immigration is a thing, but I’m getting well sick of idiots trying to make out like it causes every problem we have and always will….
Especially when Russians get caught trying to covertly pump that into idiots heads..
More efficient processing is the way to go. Over the long term, they’ll save money on paying accomodation/ maintenance etc to applicants that are stuck in the system
Faster and more transparent is what we need. Along with a clear objective for the amount of non EU migrants we need each year and what their skills should be.
The Project 2040 document and its NGO backers needs to be discarded and the assumptions about us needing to keep growing our population to maintain GDP needs to reconsidered.
If you believe Nigerians (a safe stable country especially by African standards) should be entitled to asylum here there is no hope for you.
Most of them are returning to the UK seeing as the Rwanda deal fell apart.
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Sounds like their new system is working, at least.
Why would Nigerians have a need to seek asylum? Is it not one of the most stable African countries politically and economically?
Not sure how you fix the problem of existing African migrants. The unemployment rate for that group is catastrophic.
Progress, but the situation regarding the number of asylum applications in Ireland in 2023 from Nigeria was an absolute joke particularly when putting it in context of the figures received by other countries.
In 2023, aside from Cyprus, we had by far the highest per capita numbers of asylum applications from Nigeria in the world and it wasn’t even close. Take Canada out of the equation and the comparison of figures between Ireland and other countries is even more concerning.
Numbers or Nigerian asylum applications per country in 2023 (6 countries with highest total numbers)
Country: Population. Annual No. of applications
Canada. 41.2 million. 9253
United States. 345.4 million. 4350
Italy. 58.3 million. 3995
Germany. 84.5 million. 2357
France. 66.5 million. 2268
Ireland. 5.2 million. 2084
UK. 69.6 million. 1263
Now consider per capita rates;
Ireland = 4.0 applications per 10,000 people
Canada = 2.25 applications per 10,000 people
Italy = 0.7 applications per 10,000 people
France = 0.3 applications per 10,000 people
Germany = 0.3 applications per 10,000 people
UK = 0.18 applications per 10,000 people
* Ultimately, the asylum system here is an absolute mess. Based on the above data the numbers of applications here from Nigeria in 2023 need to be drastically reduced. And of course, considering the distance of ireland to Nigeria and difficulty in travelling here from there, it’s quite clear that this is more about asylum shopping than ‘safety’.
Source:
https://www.worlddata.info/africa/nigeria/asylum.php
The old system and the stress it put on the civil servants interviewing candidates has literally killed people. Flawed from top to bottom.
It’s crazy seeing these papers go out of their way to write stories about the same shit Russia is paying millions for idiots to consume ‘immigrants, immigrants.. immigrants of different colour.’
People are obsessed.. which is fine. But why is maga and Russia paying millions to ensure problems re obsessed?!
That’s whats throwing me… You think the idiots here aren’t on twitter and YouTube consuming that shite too.
Immigration is a thing, but I’m getting well sick of idiots trying to make out like it causes every problem we have and always will….
Especially when Russians get caught trying to covertly pump that into idiots heads..
More efficient processing is the way to go. Over the long term, they’ll save money on paying accomodation/ maintenance etc to applicants that are stuck in the system
Faster and more transparent is what we need. Along with a clear objective for the amount of non EU migrants we need each year and what their skills should be.
The Project 2040 document and its NGO backers needs to be discarded and the assumptions about us needing to keep growing our population to maintain GDP needs to reconsidered.
If you believe Nigerians (a safe stable country especially by African standards) should be entitled to asylum here there is no hope for you.
Most of them are returning to the UK seeing as the Rwanda deal fell apart.