The Citizenship Division of my Department has advised that the correspondence issued on 1 September 2023 to the guardian referred to by the Deputy was issued in error.
While the Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provision) Act 2023 was enacted on the 31st July 2023, Citizenship Division were going through a transitional period to update and implement the changes.
Unfortunately during this time the application made on behalf of the child referred to by the Deputy was dealt with incorrectly. This error is greatly regretted.
The Citizenship Division have now written directly to the named guardian to apologise for the error and requesting the application form and documents be resubmitted and will be dealt with upon receipt to ensure no further delays to the processing are incurred.