Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 5 March 2020
384. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed by a person (details supplied) in respect of renewal of his or her stamp 4; if his or her child who was born here can proceed for naturalisation in the interim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3136/20]
View answerI can inform the Deputy that my Department issued a letter to the person concerned in April 2019 granting conditional permission to remain in the State. The person concerned was advised to furnish specific documentation at least four weeks before their permission was due to expire on 2 February 2020. My Department has no record of receiving any recent correspondence from the applicant.
I note from the details provided by the Deputy that the address for the person concerned differs from that which my Department has on record. The onus is on all persons to keep my Department notified of any changes to their details.
An application for a certificate of naturalisation may be submitted for a minor if the minor's parents have already been naturalised or if the minor is of Irish descent or has Irish associations or, at the time of their birth, was not entitled to Irish Citizenship but has since accumulated 5 years reckonable residency in the state.
Minors cannot apply for naturalisation by themselves. The application must be made by their parent, legal guardian or person acting on the child's behalf in loco parentis.
Further information on applying for naturalisation can be found on my Departments website https://www.irishimmigration.ie/citizenship/.
Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to my Department 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 is, in the Deputy’s view, inadequate or too long awaited.
