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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 13 Feb 1992

Vol. 415 No. 7

Written Answers. - Entry Visa Statistics.

Bernard Allen

Question:

151 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if, in view of the fact that he was unable to give full figures for the total number of entry visas issued in 1991 to Parliamentary Question No. 131 dated 29 January 1992, he is now in a position to give the full figures of entry visas granted in 1991; and if he will specify the individual nationalities to which they were issued, giving the number in each case.

The details requested by the Deputy are set out in the following table:

Entry visas granted during 1991.

Country

Albania

6

Algeria

168

Afghanistan

1

Angola

7

Antigua

2

Bahrain

83

Bangladesh

136

Belize

4

Benin

4

Bhutan

7

Brunei

33

Bolivia

26

Burundi

4

Bulgaria

186

Burkina-Faso

5

Burma

8

Cambodia

1

Cameroon

20

Cape Verde

3

China (P.R.)

589

Colombia

72

Congo

5

Cuba

41

Czechoslovakia

1

Dominican Republic

12

Egypt

391

Estonia

1

Ethiopia

34

Gabon

3

Guinea

9

Ghana

87

Germany (D.R.)

1

Grenada

1

Hong Kong

36

Haiti

4

Hungary

8

India

1,424

Indonesia

110

Iran

489

Iraq

87

Ivory Coast

8

Jordan

161

Korea (D.P.R.)

17

Kuwait

149

Lebanon

144

Liberia

2

Libya

614

Madagascar

7

Mali

4

Mauritania

5

Mauritius

1

Morocco

200

Mozambique

8

Namibia

5

Nepal

15

Niger

1

Nigeria

510

Oman

55

Pakistan

716

Papua New Guinea

9

Peru

53

Philippines

290

Poland

1,065

Qatar

63

Romania

316

Rwanda

4

Saudi Arabia

297

Senegal

23

Seychelles

16

Solomon Islands

2

Somalia

13

Sri Lanka

140

Sudan

152

Surinam

4

Swaziland

2

Syria

81

Taiwan

223

Thailand

179

Togo

5

Tunisia

41

Turkey

535

UAE

103

USSR

2,096

Vannuatu

2

Vietnam

18

St. Vincent

1

Yemen

28

Zaire

21

Stateless

77

Total

12,625

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