With you on this and why the red thumbs?

Why highlight the actions of one fraudster?

Ha Ha, Well done lads delete my comment because I said the Pamela izevbekhai case was the tip of the iceberg! It was! Fair play to Immigration Bureau for going to Nigeria to investigate her story and getting the facts! Its a pity the €1m in legal fees will never be returned to the tax payer!

How much money has been squandered on trips to high courts for bogus asylum seekers? 3.1million was spent alone in 2011! No wonder the country is gone down the tubes!!

So she got to stay on grounds of the domestic abuse, nothing to do with her own legal right, she wasn’t even married to this EU national, and where is the EU national that abused her? Is he in prison? That would be justice done, but allowing her to stay because of this? justice? This is crap.

corection – i see they were married, but that would allow her to stay anyway. this reads as though she got rights to stay as a result of been abused. if she wasn’t abused at all and just left the man, surely she’d still be allowed to stay as she was married to an EU national?

No – residency is based on a relationship to the EU national and when that relationship ends, the assumption is that you would return to your country of origin.

However, in domestic violence cases, this could provide incentive to remain with an abusive spouse due to immigration status, which is the last thing anyone wants.

There are a lot of them on here Dil. They normally start with Im not a racist BUT. Pay no attention to them.

Racist? In what way was anything anyone said implying she is in any way lesser then us? As Rory said above –

What has abuse to do with residency? One does not lead to another. Please , if I am wrong, demonstrate how it is relevant.

Obviously no-one supports violence but laws are made by the citizens of a nation, a group you now count yourself among. Respect the laws and leave your narrow-minded Racist calls where they belong, at home.

Women are abused all over the world. Pakistan has a horrific endemic social problem with domestic abuse, and it’s estimated that 70 to 90% of women there are subjected to it. We are a small country that is financially broke and can’t take on the problems of the world.

We need a strict immigration policy like the US or Australia which only grants working visas to those with skills we need for our economy. For too long, we had no proper immigration policy. Anyone who tried to raise the issue was subject to a cynical cheap about racism.

good man Joe, can’t wait for immigration to get tough like Australia and Canada. They’re very good at almost dictating to us how our own country should be run just to suit them. They don’t care about you or I.

There is a difference between coming here to work and earn money and contribute to society and coming here to not work and gain financially from the taxes of other people. If this woman intend to que up for the dole every week for the rest of her days the i have a problem with that.

There are extreme cases where there are wars and we allow people to stay here. There are always exceptions.

If they want to stay here they must abide by our ways and our laws. If they break our laws then they should be deported. I’m in favour of giving visa’s and residency for a period and when they sufficiently prove they are not here for the free money and they do not breaks the law after a period of 10-15 years then give them an irish passport! The same should be expected of irish people abroad.

She came here to be with her husband, Diarmiud. Are you really going to start telling Irish citizens that they can’t marry non-nationals and start a family?

What would you do? Turf people who are the victims of violence out?

They should impose a time limit on any immigrant coming here to marry, for reasons of citizenship. Make it law, that they have to have resided in the Country for five years before they could marry!

No Stephen, because we’d have to have them here for 5 years. If it is truly for love, the Irish citizen should move to their partners home country for 2 years prior to marriage.

Your bigotry is only exceeded by your selfishness. How would you feel if the millions of Irish emmigrants of the last 50 years were suddenly forced back here to live on our “limited” resources. We are of this world and in this world. There is no national drawbridge and people are people regardless of where they were born. Live with it.

I agree Stephen, but you can’t tell before they get here which type of person they are. The man should commit a year or two of his life to show it’s not for benefits or anything like that.

Why should an Irish citizen have to go elsewhere to marry a non-EU citizen? If I or anyone else meet someone and want to enter a marriage or civil partnership, the state should allow that person to reside with me here. It is ridiculous to suggest that I would have to reside elsewhere first.

Go suck a lemon Ben, it might sweeten you up. No-one has a problem with people coming to work but I have a huge problem with those coming to scam the system. I also have a problem with Irish people who scam the system. It’s not bigotry, it’s a sense of justice.

You can’t have it every which way there Bernard. If they’re only allowed in on account of the marriage, why should they be allowed to stay once it’s ended?

You are out of your skull if you believe people move half way across the world to get welfare benefits.

Ben Gunn- Why is it Racist, to control who enters your Country. I am sure, the Irish in other Countries are subject to strict controls in Australia, New Zeland, Canada and USA etc.? Maybe you should read their laws or travel a bit?

I never said that it was. I would refer you to the rubbish spouted by the commentator I was responding to.

Have you seen the dole ques, i was in tralee during the boom it was full of foreigners and granted some irish as well. SOME of these people arrive here and have no intention of working. The more children they have the more money they get. There have been cases where families are in trouble with the law quiet a bit and take every benefit going and contribute nothing. The are a huge cost of the sate, i’ve been to paris recently and they got the same problem there, from speaking to some Belgium people its a problem there too.

The UK are alot more strict on immigration, difference is there immigrants come from british commonwealth countries where the people have been taught the british way and britain invaded them and want to work in the uk.

If every country had that rule, Andy, where on earth would they live? It can be incredibly difficult for spouses of different nationalities to navigate the system and if, for example, Ireland and Australia both had that rule, it would put an Irish/Australian couple in a bit of a bind.

I don’t think you’d get any benefits in Nigeria or Pakistan! You’d be lucky to make it through the day without getting kidnapped or shot!