John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 341: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when a decision will be made in relation to the application for long-term residency in respect of a person (details supplied) [35781/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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An application for long term residency from the person referred to by the Deputy was received in my Department on 16 June 2010. Officials in the section that processes such applications have informed me that applications received in February 2010 are currently being processed. It is likely, therefore, that further processing of the application from the person concerned will commence in the near future with a decision expected early next year.

I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration cases may be made direct to INIS by Email using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this purpose. The service enables up-to-date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek this information through the more administratively expensive Parliamentary Questions process.