Written answers
Tuesday, 24 November 2020
Department of Justice and Equality
Immigration Data
Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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740. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the nationality of those refused permission to remain in 2020, in tabular form. [38568/20]
Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The table below sets out the refusals of permission to remain by nationality under Section 49 of the International Protection Act 2015, from January to September of this year.
Refusals of Permission to Remain Jan to Sept 2020*
| Nationality as provided by the applicant at time of application. | |
|---|---|
| Albania | 209 |
| Georgia | 199 |
| Pakistan | 185 |
| Zimbabwe | 116 |
| South Africa | 96 |
| Nigeria | 69 |
| Algeria | 49 |
| Brazil | 35 |
| Bangladesh | 31 |
| Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The | 23 |
| Malawi | 22 |
| India | 20 |
| Ghana | 10 |
| Sierra Leone | 9 |
| China (Including Hong Kong) | 8 |
| Morocco | 8 |
| Others | 84 |
| Total | 1173 |
| Nationality as provided by the applicant at time of application. | |
|---|---|
| Albania | 209 |
| Georgia | 199 |
| Pakistan | 185 |
| Zimbabwe | 116 |
| South Africa | 96 |
| Nigeria | 69 |
| Algeria | 49 |
| Brazil | 35 |
| Bangladesh | 31 |
| Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The | 23 |
| Malawi | 22 |
| India | 20 |
| Ghana | 10 |
| Sierra Leone | 9 |
| China (Including Hong Kong) | 8 |
| Morocco | 8 |
| Others | 84 |
| Total | 1173 |
The table below sets out the refusals of reviews of permission to remain by nationality under Section 49 of the International Protection Act 2015, from January to September of this year.
| Nationality | |
|---|---|
| Georgia | 46 |
| Pakistan | 42 |
| Albania | 27 |
| Zimbabwe | 18 |
| Nigeria | 14 |
| Bangladesh | 12 |
| India | 11 |
| South Africa | 11 |
| Algeria | 7 |
| Others | 27 |
| Total | 215 |
*These figures relate to the year in which the decision was made and not to the year in which the application was made. These statistics are correct as of 23 November 2020. However, they may be subject to data cleansing.
Where the numbers of applications from individual countries are low, no further breakdown by nationality is provided for confidentiality reasons, in line with Section 26 of the International Protection Act 2015.
Those refused permission to remain following a review were already refused Permission to Remain at first instance.
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