INIS & ORAC Case Processing Panel – deadline 19 February 2015

The Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) and the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner (ORAC) require Law Graduates for a Case Processing Panel.

To enable INIS and ORAC to carry out their functions to optimum effect and to assist in the reduction of caseloads, the current Case Processing Panel of Legal Graduates is being expanded and its remit extended to process applications for refugee status and to carry out other support work.

• carrying out interviews with applicants for refugee status under the Refugee Act, 1996 (as amended) and following the interview, preparing a detailed synopsis/report of the main issues raised at the interview;
• interviewing applicants for subsidiary protection under the European Union (Subsidiary Protection) Regulations, 2013 (and any amendments thereto) and producing a reasoned, balanced and legally robust report to an authorised officer;
• producing a reasoned, balanced and legally robust report/submission to an officer of the Minister on cases to be considered under Section 3 of the Immigration Act, 1999;
• representing the Refugee Applications Commissioner at appeal hearings in respect of applications for refugee status and subsidiary protection and transfer decisions under the EU Dublin III Regulation at the Refugee Appeals Tribunal, 6-7 Hanover Street, Dublin 2.

Persons appointed to the panel will be paid on a fee-per-completed-case basis.

Closing date for applications is Thursday 19 February 2015 at 5pm.

Further information and application forms are available on www.inis.gov.ie website or by emailing INISRecruit@justice.ie.