I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy made an application for Family Reunification on behalf of his wife in June 2005 and a decision issued to the person referred to by the Deputy refusing the application in July 2007.
I am further informed that the person referred to by the Deputy made a new application for Family Reunification on behalf of his wife in April 2009. The new application was forwarded to the Refugee Applications Commissioner for investigation as required under Section 18 of the Refugee Act 1996.
The investigation has been completed and the Commissioner has forwarded a report to INIS.
The application is currently under consideration by INIS. INIS are currently waiting for an inter-departmental report, upon receipt of same INIS will contact the applicant.
I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration cases may be made direct to INIS by Email using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this purpose. The service enables up-to-date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek this information through the more administratively expensive Parliamentary Questions process.