WHAT HAPPENS IF YOUR APPLICATION RECEIVES A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION?

Where your application for a declaration as a refugee receives a positive recommendation from the Refugee Applications Commissioner you will be notified by registered post and the recommendation will be submitted to the Minister who will make a declaration that you are a refugee.

NATIONAL SECURITY AND PUBLIC POLICY CONSIDERATIONS

Under section 17(2)(a) of the Act, if the Minister considers that, in the interest of national security or public policy ('ordre publique'), it is necessary to do so, he or she may, by order:

(i) provide that section 3 (Certain rights of refugees), section 9 (Leave to enter or remain in the State) and section 18 of the Refugee Act (Family reunification) shall not apply  to a person who has been given a declaration as a refugee, and

(ii) require the person to leave the State.