sort33 wrote:I really appreciate and thank you for sparing your time in posting the replies....thanks a million
i was trying to type this earlier when i was at work but the power went down so i couldnt finish it. i start again now. anyway, i just want to tell you and you make the call youself after you read what i have to say.
i was working in dublin few years ago and left last year. i got a job offer in sept 2001. it took my employer 5 months to get me the first work permit. i couldnot start work until jan 2002 in dublin. in my work permit said that if i want to renew my work permit, i have to inform my emplyer 3 months before my work permit expires. so i did inform them. my employer made a mistake. they told me they dont know that i need a work permit to work. so they actually put in a work permit renewal application for me a week before xmas in 2002. my employer also told me that, they have been told by the dept of enterprise that told my employer that it will take at least 6 weeks before they give me a new work permit and i wont be able to work if my original work permit expired and new work permit has not arrived. my employer even told me that they wont pay me if i cannot work but it wasnt even my fault that because i informed them. anyway, i was wondering between GNIB and dept of enterprise. i got to talk to someone in dept of foreign affairs inside GNIB building. now it is part of INIS. anyway, this lady i spoke to in dept of forign affairs. she told me that my employer either lying to me or they have got the false information from dept of enterprise. anyway, the lady in the dept of forign affairs told me that, by the law, if my employer put in a work permit renewal application to dept of foreign affairs before my original work permit expires, i can still work and get pay from my employer until dept of enterprise say YES or NO to my work permit renewal application. and i got the confirmation from dept of enterprise about what the lady in dept of foreign affairs told me. also, i can get pay and work without a work permit. it doesnt mean i dont need to renew my permission to remain. i went to GNIB and told them the story and i also showed them a letter from my employer saying that the work permit renewal application has been submitted to dept of enterprise. they gave me 3 months permissiont to remain wihtout sasking any question.
look, i am little bit luckier compare to some of the people in ireland because i am a non visa required national, so i only have to deal with GNIB only for now and dont have to deal with dept of foreign affairs when i leave or enter the country. you are in the country already. look, GNIB is part of dept of justice. i have been telling people in this forum. if GNIB told you to apply to dept of justice to change your status. they will have to provide you a temp status to make you legal in the country until the dept of justice make a decision in you case. do you understand what i am trying to say here????????? If you ever wrote to dept of justice already, you go back to GNIB and ask them to give you a permission to remain as visitor until dept of justice make a decision in your case! if course, you have to show prove that you can enough money to stay in the coutnry and the normal bullshit they look for in a visitor! look, most of those people work in GNIB dont know what they doing, i even saw a gal working behine a GNIB counter texting with her cell phone while 100 people still waiting to get their permission to remain renew in Dublin. also, you can check with immigrant council of ireland in dublin 2 about what i said before you go to gnib again. look, if they told you that they wont give you anything in gnib, just ask them to explain can you be illegal in the country while you have a pending case in dept of justice????? is that legal? look, they cannot just make up law here but sadly thats what the dept of justice is doing. sometime they tell people false info.
yes, in you case, you can go back to your home country to apply, but also, you can apply in dublin while you are in the country. the gnib either give you a temperary visitor statuse in your passport until dept of justice to make a decision on you application to change your status OR DEPORT YOU RIGHT AT THE DATE THAT YOU ARE BEING ILLEGAL IN THE COUNTRY!
i dont know do you follow the news in ireland much. this is not the first time i comment on stuff like this about GNIB. they just refuse to do what they suppose to do for all the immigrant in need. they told you that they cannot do anything for you and you have to write dept of justice about this. the reason i asked if you followed the news in ireland. remember the dublin city council gave out planning permission for the incinerator to be built in dubin bay. i left ireland already, but last time i have heard they putting it on hold now because there is more talk underway. but in the first place. when dublin city council gave out plannign permission for the incinerator. my gormley( the minister for environment ) said he cannot do anything about the planning permission. look, he has the executive power over all the environmental issue in ireland and he can or could refuse anything if it is environmentally bad for ireland but he told people that he cannot do anything about this. it is just the same as the gnib told you that they cannot change you status and cannot renew your permission to remain. the gnib might not be able to change your status from student to visitor but i am sure they can grant you a permission to remain as visitor until dept of justice say yes or no to you. thats their job there, grant permission to remain to people based on their situation!
damn, this is way to long i wrote but i hope you can understand what i am trying to say.
good luck for whatever you decide to do!
look, you are in the country already.
