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Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The person in question made an application for residency on the basis of being a family dependent of a person who was granted permission to remain in the State as the parent of an Irish born child prior to 2003. The application was received in April 2007. Applications of this nature are dealt with in chronological order, in fairness to all other such applicants and currently take...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I propose to take Questions Nos. 661 and 696 together. In relation to the first person concerned, I refer the Deputy to Parliamentary Question No. 208 of Tuesday, 24 April, 2007 and the written reply to that Question. The position is unchanged. The second person concerned arrived in the State on 8 August, 2000 and applied for asylum. Her application was refused following consideration of...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The person in question made an application for Family Reunification in May 2006. The application was forwarded to the Refugee Applications Commissioner for investigation as required under Section 18 of the Refugee Act 1996. This investigation is completed and the Commissioner has forwarded a report to my Department. This application will be considered by my Department and a decision will...

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I propose to take Questions Nos. 663 and 679 together. As the Deputy will be aware, under the provisions of the Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006, the Property Registration Authority was established as and from 4 November, 2006. The Property Registration Authority replaces the Registrar of Deeds and Titles as the registering authority in relation to property registration in Ireland...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I refer the Deputy to my previous replies of 20th March 2007 and 5th April 2007 in relation to the person in question. The position remains unchanged.

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I can inform the Deputy that there have been no changes to the conditions applying to the renewal of permissions to remain in the State granted to non EEA students. I am aware that a notice outlining changed conditions was, due to an error of communication, recently posted in the offices of the Garda National Immigration Bureau and I appreciate that this gave rise to some confusion regarding...

Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: I refer the Deputy to the answer given by my predecessor to Parliamentary Question Number 420 of 31 January, 2007. The position remains the same. The application was received in the Visa Office, Cairo. The decision of the Visa Officer to refuse the application was taken on September 5th, 2006. The Visa Officer who examined the application was not satisfied, on the basis of the...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: An application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's question was received in the Citizenship Section of my Department on 5 March 2007. Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in the latter half of 2004 and have approximately 12,900 applications on hand to be dealt with before that of the person concerned. These are...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The position concerning the applications for naturalisation in respect of the persons in question remains as outlined in my predecessor's response to the Deputy's parliamentary question number 113 of 24 April 2007.

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The position in relation to granting long term residency is as follows: Persons who have been legally resident in the State for over five years on the basis of work permit/work authorisation/work visa conditions may apply to the Immigration Division of my Department for a five year residency extension. In that context they may also apply to be exempt from employment permit requirements. The...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The position in relation to granting long term residency is as follows: persons who have been legally resident in the State for over five years on the basis of work permit/work authorisation/work visa conditions may apply to the Immigration Division of my Department for a five year residency extension. In that context they may also apply to be exempt from employment permit requirements....

Written Answers — Garda Recruitment: Garda Recruitment (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Recruitment to An Garda Síochána is a matter in the first instance for the Public Appointment Service and then for the Commissioner of An Garda Síochána. The Public Appointment Service is located in Chapter House, 26-30 Abbey Street Upper, Dublin 1, and can be contacted at Lo-Call 1890 44 99 99 or by e-mail at info@publicjobs.ie. There is currently no date set for the next recruitment...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Applications for certificates of naturalisation from the persons referred to in the Deputy's Question were received in the Citizenship Section of my Department on 1 June 2005 and 7 February 2006. Officials in that Section are currently processing applications received in the latter half of 2004 and have approximately 2,000 and 5,500 applications to be dealt with before those of the first and...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The position in relation to granting long term residency is as follows: Persons who have been legally resident in the State for over five years on the basis of work permit/work authorisation/work visa conditions may apply to the Immigration Division of my Department for a five year residency extension. In that context they may also apply to be exempt from employment permit requirements. The...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Applications for certificates of naturalisation were received from the persons referred to in the Deputy's question on 7 October 2005. I understand that processing of both applications has commenced and that the case files will be submitted to me for a decision in the coming months. I will advise the Deputy and the persons in question once I have reached a decision on the applications.

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: An application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy's Question was received in the Citizenship Section of my Department in August 2005. The application was recently forwarded to me for a decision on whether to grant a certificate of naturalisation and I decided to refuse the application. A letter informing the applicant of the reason for refusal was...

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: An application for a certificate of naturalisation from the individual concerned was received in the Citizenship Section of my Department on 1 November 2005. As the person in question did not satisfy the statutory residency conditions as set out in Section 15 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956 as amended, he was deemed ineligible to apply for naturalisation at the time. He...

Written Answers — Residency Permits: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: The person in question made an application for permission to remain in the State based on student conditions. The Immigration Division of my Department has recently written to the person concerned requesting documentation to enable the further processing of the application. The application will be further processed upon receipt of these documents.

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: Processing of this application is at an advanced stage and I expect the file to be presented to me for a decision in the near future. I will inform the Deputy and person concerned when I have reached a decision on the application.

Written Answers — Registration of Title: Registration of Title (26 Jun 2007)

Brian Lenihan Jnr: As the Deputy will be aware, under the provisions of the Registration of Deeds and Title Act 2006, the Property Registration Authority was established as and from 4 November 2006. The Property Registration Authority replaces the Registrar of Deeds and Titles as the registering authority in relation to property registration in Ireland and, subject to the above Act, is independent in the...