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Residency Permits

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 16 October 2013

Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Questions (104)

Brendan Griffin

Question:

104. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kerry was refused an application for residency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43867/13]

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Written answers

Based on the information supplied, I am informed by officials in my Department that they can find no record of an application for residency for the person referred to by the Deputy. However, records indicate that the person concerned has made three visa applications in 2010, 2011 and in 2012. All applications were for short stay visits, i.e, of less than 90 days, to Ireland. These three applications were, following full consideration by the visa officer concerned, refused.

The most recent application was refused on 17 July 2012 and the decision to refuse was upheld by an appeals officer on 18 October 2012. The visa appeals officer did not consider that the person concerned provided sufficient evidence of her obligations to return home following a visit to Ireland and had concerns that she would not observe the conditions of a visa were it to be approved. Furthermore, the person concerned was requested by the visa appeals officer to provide a copy of a letter of refusal of a UK visa application. This was not provided. The visa appeals officer had concerns that the person may attempt to use the common travel area between the UK and Ireland to enter the UK unlawfully.

It is open to the person concerned to make a new application should she so wish. Where doing so, the applicant should be in a position to address the reasons for the refusal, in particular in this case, by showing stronger evidence of obligations to return home on the expiration of the permission to remain in Ireland. Guidelines regarding the visa application procedure are available on the website of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service - www.inis.gov.ie.

Queries in relation to general immigration matters 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.

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