The Common Travel Area currently protects only Irish and British citizens. Migrant, refugee, and mixed-status families are routinely stopped, questioned, and turned back at the border. Your signature helps end this two-tier system.
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NWMF and CAJ will present the petition to the Irish Government with testimonies from young people, families, and essential workers who rely on cross-border travel. We also brief media, unions, and councils so the issue stays public.
Read the common Travel Are hub for briefing notes, testimonies, and key statistics
Email us for printable petition sheets, translations, and branded posters.
Browse current roles to help at events, data entry sessions, or school briefings
We can attend your event, translate materials, or help you brief allies.
The Common Travel Area was designed before modern migration patterns and was never written into one piece of law. Those loopholes mean immigration officers can stop, question, and even deport non-EU/EEA residents who live legally in border counties. Families lose wages, cannot access hospitals, and miss community life because paperwork trumps human rights.
NWMF and CAJ are calling on the Irish Government to implement a rights-based approach so every resident who calls this island home can move, care, and thrive.
Keep the momentum moving
Share the CTA hub, book speakers, and mobilise your networks. The faster we gather signatures, the sooner we end the invisible border facing migrant communities.
Set up a table in your school, community centre, workplace, or faith space and collect signatures offline.
Invite MLAs, TDs, councillors, or MPs to meet affected families and endorse the CTA reforms.
Document how immigration checks impact your family so policy makers cannot ignore lived experience.
The organisations holding governments to account
A migrant and refugee–led organisation based in Derry-Londonderry, coordinating legal clinics, anti-racism education, and youth leadership.
Focus: Community organising, story gathering, and public engagement across the island.
An independent human-rights NGO that monitors governments in Ireland and Britain to ensure international legal commitments are upheld.
Focus: Policy development, legal strategy, and campaigning to secure enforceable CTA rights.
Funders and allies keeping the petition moving
