Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 523: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position of an application under the family reunification scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19537/08]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I have been informed by the Immigration Division of my Department that as the person concerned has not been granted full refugee status, he is not eligible to make an application under the family reunification scheme in respect of his mother or any other family member. I have also been informed by the Immigration Division that the mother of the person referred to by the Deputy entered the State on foot of a C visit visa, after having guaranteed in her original visa application that upon termination of her visit to this State and prior to the expiration of the 90 day maximum period permitted under the C visit visa, she would return back to India.

I understand that the person referred to by the Deputy also guaranteed that his mother would return to India on termination of her visit. Under the terms of the C visit visa scheme, the visa holder is required to leave the State on or before the expiration of the 90 day period and if she wishes to return at a future date she should apply to the nearest Irish Embassy, outside the State, for the appropriate visa to re-enter the State.