Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Question 205: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform if he will review an application for a residence card in respect of a person (details supplied) in view of the fact that they are living here for over five years and that their spouse has studied here for the past few years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43584/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I am informed by the Immigration Division of my Department that the person concerned made an application for a residence card as the non-EU family member of an EU citizen on 30 April, 2010. The person referred to by the Deputy was informed of the decision to refuse his application and the basis for this decision by letter dated 1 November, 2010.

The person concerned was advised that, if they felt the Deciding Officer had erred in fact and/or law, then they were entitled to request a review of the decision. The details of how they could seek such a review were set out in the letter. I should advise that to date my Department has received no such request from the applicant.

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.