Written answers
Thursday, 18 May 2006
Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
Citizenship Applications
5:00 pm
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 202: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the residency or naturalisation status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18958/06]
Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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An application for a certificate of naturalisation was received in the Citizenship Section of my Department in April 2003 from the person referred to by the Deputy. This application was examined in February 2005 and it was determined that the person in question did not meet the statutory residency requirements as set out in the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956, as amended. A letter informing the individual concerned of this determination was issued on 10 February 2005.
I understand that the person concerned was originally granted residency in the State on 12 August 1999 based on parentage of an Irish-born child and currently has permission to remain in the State until September 2007. However, I also understand that she did not have permission for the month of September 2005. The consequence of this is that she cannot now comply with the statutory requirement of having 1 year's continuous reckonable residence at the time of application until September 2006 at the earliest. Any application submitted in advance of September 2006 would have to be deemed ineligible.
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