Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 150: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding residency status, current or pending in the case of persons (details supplied) in County Roscommon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37052/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the persons referred to by the Deputy are the applicant and subject of a Family Reunification Application made in April 2008.

The applicant was awarded Refugee Status in December 2007.

The Family Reunification application was forwarded to the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner as required under Section 18 of the Refugee Act 1996.

The investigation was completed in September 2008 and a report was forwarded to INIS.

There are currently some issues that need to be resolved with regard to the application and INIS will be in contact with the person concerned in due course.

I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration cases may be made direct to INIS by E mail 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.