Expansion Of Accelerated Processing of International Protection Applications Announced.
From today, Monday July 29th 2024, the International Protection Office will prioritise cases from the top 2 countries of origin with the highest number of applications in the previous three months.
From today (Monday) the International Protection Office (IPO) will prioritise cases from the top 2 countries of origin with the highest number of applicants in the previous three months.
There were 881 international protection applications from Jordan in Q2 of 2024, making it the country with the second highest volume of applications. Thus in accordance with the expansion of the highest volume category, applicants from this country will now be processed on an accelerated basis.
Top 5 IP application nationalities up to the end of June 2024.
| Country | Number |
| Nigeria | 2,999 |
| Jordan | 1,037 |
| Pakistan | 769 |
| Somalia | 664 |
| Bangladesh | 649 |
| Other | 4,482 |
| Total: | 10,600 |
An Garda Síochána have arrested 115 people in the first half of 2024, for arriving without appropriate documentation and a significant number have been convicted.
The number of deportation orders signed up to 25th July 2024 (1174), has increased by 90% for the same period in 2023 (617 up to 28 July 2023).
This builds on accelerated processing introduced in April 2024 which saw citizens of the country with the highest number of applicants in the previous quarter (Nigeria) being prioritised and accelerated.
Expanding this category to the country with the second highest number of applications will further speed up international protection application processing and enable the IPO to transition to meet the faster processing requirements of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum.
Accelerated processing was introduced in November 2022 and now applies to the following cohorts:
- 15 safe countries of origin – Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Egypt, Georgia, India, Kosovo, Malawi, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Serbia and South Africa.
- Applicants who have received protection elsewhere in Europe.
- Citizens of the countries which provides the greatest number of applicants in the previous quarter.
For safe countries, there has been a drop of up to 70% in applications from the already designated safe countries, following the introduction of accelerated procedures.
The list of Safe Countries is kept under review, having regard to the profile of applications being received.
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