An airport building is turned into one-stop shop for life essentials and legal support
,” said Kate Kolva, waving a little blue and yellow flag in the arrivals hall at Dublin Airport.
Next to her stood Angelo, waiting for his girlfriend, Natalya. She had made the gruelling 30-hour journey from Kyiv to Warsaw a week earlier but had been stymied by UK immigration rules. Her boyfriend described how she had been denied travel at the boarding gate because the plane was transiting through Stansted.
As the numbers of arrivals ballooned in Ireland, the government decided the refugee crisis should be met with a humanitarian response with efforts to simplify all the paperwork needed. Crucially, it would be completed after arrival, not before.The Dublin Airport Authority decided to donate its headquarters and government departments dealing with housing, health, and immigration together set up a “one-stop shop” to ease the plight of refugees.
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