Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 21 March 2012
503 Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the current status and progress made to date in the determination of a decision in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal of a stamp 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15565/12]
View answerAn application for residency in the State based on family dependency of an Irish National was received in the Spouse of Irish National Unit of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) on the 24 February 2012 arising from the recent naturalisation of the parents of the person concerned on 3 February 2012. The application was acknowledged and the person in question was advised to maintain their existing registration whilst their application was receiving attention. These applications are being processed in chronological order based on date of receipt and a decision will be notified to the person concerned in due course.
Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to INIS by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this purpose. This service enables up to date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek information by way of the Parliamentary Questions process. The Deputy may consider using the e-mail service except in cases where the response from INIS is, in the Deputy's view, inadequate or too long awaited.
