NEW CITIZENSHIP APPLICATION SUPPORT SERVICE
9 Mar 2011
CITIZENSHIP APPLICATION SUPPORT SERVICE, a new free high quality, and confidential citizenship service to support immigrants who are applying for Irish Citizenship will open to clients in April 2011.
The service will provide advice to immigrants on their path to Irish Citizenship through a series of help desk and phone lines around the country manned by community liaision volunteers from 50 different ethnic backgrounds, speaking 25 languages.
Navigating the citizenship process is challenging for immigrants with 50% of all intial applications to Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) returned because of poor quality applications, resulting in long delays for applicants.
ROLL OUT OF CITIZENSHIP APPLICATION SUPPORT SERVICE 2011
(I) Feb & March 2011- Training of 60 Community Liaison Volunteers is taking place in Dublin, Limerick and Cork. The training is specifically focused on the naturalisation process with emphasis on how to complete application forms and understanding of the legal requirements and duties.
The Community Liaison Volunteers will provide information on:
1. Citizenship legislation and policies
2. Procedures and requirement for obtaining citizenship
3. Support in applying for citizenship and necessary documentations
2. Outreach & Workshops
(II) April 2011 - April 2012 - NCP will undertake extensive outreach throughout the major cities and towns across Ireland to educate immigrants about the naturalisation process within our resources. Outreach meetings will be held in churches, places of worship, town halls, mosques and community centres and activities will include: Free citizenship information sessions in different languages Distribution of information materials and self-help toolkits on the naturalisation process:
For further information contact info@newcommunities.ie or 01 6713639. Details of dates & venues of Advice Clinics will be posted on NCP website and on Facebook.