Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 306: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding family reunification in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6764/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy made a Family Reunification application on 23rd August 2010 and the application was forwarded to the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner as required under Section 18 of the Refugee Act 1996.

I am further informed by INIS that a letter regarding his refugee status issued to the person concerned from the Ministerial Decisions Unit on 25th March 2011, in which he was also informed that his Family Reunification application had been suspended pending the outcome of their investigations.

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.