Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 November 2020
737. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Justice the progress to date in the determination of an application for family reunification for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38507/20]
View answerThe person concerned submitted an application for Family Reunification on behalf of their family member, which was received by the Immigration Service of my Department on 8 November 2019.
They were notified by letter dated 7 January 2020, that their family member did not come within the definition of member of the family under Section 56(9) of the International Protection Act 2015 and that the application could therefore not be accepted.
Section 56(9) of the International Protection Act 2015 defines a member of the family for the purpose of Family Reunification as:
- A spouse or civil partner where the marriage or civil partnership was subsisting at the time of the application for International Protection;
- A child of the sponsor who is under the age of 18 and unmarried at the date of the application for family reunification; and
- Where the sponsor is under 18 and unmarried at the date of the application for family reunification, their parent(s) and their unmarried minor children.
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.
