Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 9 May 2013
158. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in order to update Garda National Immigration Bureau Card which is due to expire on 13 June 2013 in the case a person (details supplied) in County Louth who has already submitted an application for naturalisation for which a decision is pending [21941/13]
View answerThe person concerned was granted permission to remain in the State for an initial 2 year period on stamp 4 conditions from 13 June 2005, under the revised arrangements for the non-EEA national parents of children born in Ireland prior to January, 2005, commonly known as the IBC/05 Scheme. The permission to remain was renewed regularly and is currently valid until June 2013. Full details of the procedure for renewals of permission granted under the IBC/05 Scheme for the calendar year of 2013 can be found on the website of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) (www.inis.gov.ie).
Queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration cases may be made directly to the 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 this information by way of the Parliamentary Questions process. The Deputy may consider using the e-mail service except in cases where the response from the INIS is, in the Deputy's view, inadequate or too long awaited.
