Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 317: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the advice the embassy in Moscow gave to the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform visa office in Dublin on the visa application of a person (details supplied); if the visa officer in Moscow found the application for a visa to be credible. [34797/05]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The visa application from the person concerned was referred by my Department to the responsible Department in these matters, namely the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform, for decision on 22 August 2005.

A visa officer from the embassy in Moscow was subsequently requested to interview the person concerned by an official of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. This interview took place in Kiev on 17 October 2005. The procedure then followed was that a transcript of this interview was forwarded to the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform for consideration in conjunction with her original visa application.

The Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform refused the visa application on 3 November 2005. The honorary consul in Kiev was notified of this decision by the Department of Foreign Affairs on 7 November 2005.