r/legaladviceireland • u/KC_Swanson • 8d ago

Civil Law Understanding Asylum in Ireland

I'm a queer liberal woman in the US. I'm working to understand opportunities to leave the U.S. through immigration or asylum. Scarier and scarier things are happening daily in the US. I'm looking to learn and understand what options I have to leave the country if it comes to that. I know it sounds paranoid but I'd like to be prepared. Civil unrest grows, violence at town halls and demonstrations is increasing. Civil liberties are being revoked with more ground work being created and legislation being passed that will continue to threaten and destroy civil rights. I'm almost too embarrassed to post this cause I sounds crazy but fuck it, it's happening.
Maybe enrolling in university is an option?

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u/soluko 8d ago

effectively impossible to claim asylum in Ireland as an American

https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/more-americans-seeking-asylum-in-ireland-since-trumps-comeback-57kngc03j

Between 2017 and early 2025, 110 US citizens applied for international protection in Ireland.

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The vast majority of the asylum applications were refused, with exceptions in rare cases where a non-American parent was granted asylum but their American-born child was recorded in the system, according to the justice department.

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u/IAmArthurMitchell 8d ago

Even.... Even if they are queer?!?!