Written answers

Tuesday, 16 November 2010

Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform

Citizenship Applications

9:00 am

Photo of Aengus Ó SnodaighAengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 224: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the reason for the delay in granting citizenship to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; the reason citizenship was refused in a previous application and the further reason they have not heard anything since they have applied in 2007. [42437/10]

Photo of Dermot AhernDermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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At the outset, I should point out that the legislation governing naturalisation does not provide an inherent right to any applicant to a grant of naturalisation on foot of their application. In December 2006, the person concerned was advised by letter - which also set out the reasons - that his application for naturalisation was not successful. In December 2007, a fresh application was received from him.

The application is currently being processed in the normal way with a view to establishing whether the applicant meets the statutory conditions for the granting of naturalisation and will be submitted to me for decision 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 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.

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