Thanks. I'm quite disappointed. When I spoke with their office originally I was strongly encouraged to have the daughter apply and told she had a good case. It was only this last spring that they sent us some guidelines as to how they decide the merits of who can use the route we took. Unfortunately, the process is now structured so that it's pretty much impossible to be successful if we both were not already in the country and had lived there for some time. These new rules were not available to us when she applied in 2018, or we wouldn't have bothered.
If she'd gone to uni there instead of Glasgow it probably would have flown, but I couldn't fund an Irish PhD for her at international tuition rates. The same would apply if she had a professional job there, but her skills are not on the "shortage" list and so getting employer sponsorship is a non-starter. So, seven years of being left hanging in the breeze and many hundreds of euros wasted. I don't mind the money as much - it was a gamble - it was the being strung along for seven years that is so galling, really. We've been waiting for a decision before making future plans.
At least we can move on now.
