{"id":439053,"date":"2026-05-08T17:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/439053\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:45:11","slug":"mechanic-granted-refugee-status-cannot-afford-to-have-his-parents-and-sister-join-him-here-judge-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/439053\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanic granted refugee status cannot afford to have his parents and sister join him here, judge says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Taliban members drive in a convoy to celebrate the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. Photo: Reuters\/Ali Khara\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bad283d1-0674-4fb7-957b-85276e90a00a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Taliban members drive in a convoy to celebrate the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. Photo: Reuters\/Ali Khara<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An Afghan man has failed in a challenge to a refusal to allow him to bring his parents and sister here after the High Court found he does not have the financial resources to support them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The now 42-year-old man fled Afghanistan in 2014 claiming he was under threat from criminal elements and after he was jailed for four months when he approached police for help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taliban members drive in a convoy to celebrate the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US troops from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-439053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439053","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=439053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}