Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 276: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the position regarding an application for leave to remain here in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41407/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person concerned is the subject of a Family Reunification application made in November 2009.

The application was forwarded to the Refugee Applications Commissioner for investigation as required under Section 18 of the Refugee Act 1996. This investigation is completed and the Commissioner has forwarded a report to INIS.

This application will be considered by INIS and a decision will issue in due course. Applications are currently taking approximately 19 months to process.

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.