{"id":330105,"date":"2026-03-05T10:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330105\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T10:27:10","slug":"cork-health-jobs-at-risk-over-delays-with-permits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/330105\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork health jobs at risk over delays with permits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">Cork residents working in healthcare roles could be in danger of losing their jobs, due to long delays to the renewal process for residency permits (IRPs).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Janet Baby Joseph, who works in the healthcare service in Cork, told  The Echo that she is not affected by the issue, but has started a WhatsApp group for Indian people in Cork who are, and it now has more than 500 members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cRecently there\u2019s been a huge backlog,\u201d she said, explaining that applicants cannot apply for renewal until 12 weeks before the permit is set to expire. She said the Government is currently only processing the renewals applied for last November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIn healthcare, they know that if we throw people out of work, the healthcare system will be stuck, but people in other sectors are finding it really hard. Nurses and healthcare assistants working for agencies are not allowed to work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAll our records are in the system, they\u2019re just a click away, but 24 weeks are being spent on this renewal. If you have a year permit, you need to apply again almost as soon as you get your card.\u201d Jincy Shinoj, who also works in healthcare, said she has been waiting for her IRP renewal since the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">\n            \u201cThere are a lot of people with different kinds of issues; like, it is affecting their jobs. If we need to travel to India, it\u2019s a problem for us. It\u2019s difficult to come back because we need the IRP card to travel.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Satish Bala told  The Echo that he and his wife both work in healthcare, and were set to get keys to their new house recently, but the bank has frozen the process due to delays with their documentation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cEverything was approved, but the bank suddenly say our permit is expiring. The house owner is putting us under pressure to move on. We had sorted furniture and electronics to be delivered, and now it is delayed so we are going to have to rebook it all,\u201d he said, adding this will cost them several thousand euro.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Robin Jose said that he has already received a suspension letter from his retail company due to delays to his IRP, which he applied for in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cIn retail, sales, or any other company or temporary job like with an agency, the company are helpless, they can\u2019t legally let you work,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is no way to contact the department over the phone, only the online portal, and you can\u2019t go to an office and talk to a person. We are ready to pay more money for the card, but we are losing money because we can\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\n            \u201cPeople who have had loans approved can\u2019t get them without this card. People are struggling with going to another place or if they need to go back to India.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">He added that two friends of his were waiting more than eight hours at the airport last week for their details to be checked with the embassy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Cork Labour senator Laura Harmon said that \u201cradically improved communication\u201d from immigration services and a reduction in delay times are needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cork residents working in healthcare roles could be in danger of losing their jobs, due to long delays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4257,79,103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-330105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-cork-business","tag-cork-news","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}