Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 326: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will review an application for a stamp four for a person (details supplied), in view of the fact that this person has been resident here since January 2002 therefore satisfying the condition that an applicant has completed five years or 60 months legal residency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40175/10]

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 14 September 2010.

Long Term Residency is granted on the basis that a non-EEA national has completed five years legal residency in the State on work permit work/work authorisation/working visa conditions. Residency is calculated from the corresponding Stamp 1 or Stamp 4 endorsements in an applicant's passport and not by the dates of commencement and expiry of each work permit. Periods of time where a person has not had legal residency cannot be counted in any application for Long Term Residency. On this basis, the person referred had less than one year's applicable residence and did not satisfy the criteria for obtaining Long Term Residency. A letter setting out the position in this regard issued to the person concerned on 26/10/2010. It is of course open to him to reapply for Long Term Residency when he satisfies the above-mentioned criteria.

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.