Written answers

Thursday, 27 September 2007

Department of Foreign Affairs

Passport Applications

5:00 pm

Photo of Róisín ShortallRóisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Labour)
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Question 87: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs, further to previous correspondence, the reason the adopted children of an Irish person (details supplied) cannot obtain an Irish passport; and the arrangements that will be put in place to facilitate this family's future visits to Ireland. [21361/07]

Photo of Dermot AhernDermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The two children referred to by the Deputy are not Irish citizens and are therefore not entitled to be issued with Irish passports.

As the Deputy is aware, these children were adopted in Libya. The position is that the Adoption Board does not recognise Libyan adoptions under Irish law, and that these adoptions cannot be entered in the Register of Foreign Adoptions recognised by the Board. The children could only have become Irish citizens, in accordance with the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act, 1956, if it were possible for their adoptions to have been entered in the Register of Foreign Adoptions.

I indicated in my letter of 18 July 2007 to the Deputy that, in order to facilitate future visits to Ireland by this family, an application could be made for multiple entry visas for the children.

As there is no Irish embassy in Libya, any such application should be sent directly to the Visa Office of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS), which is located at the Department of Justice, 13/14 Burgh Quay, Dublin 2.

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