Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 75: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application made for family reunification in respect of a person (details supplied)in Dublin 1; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10167/11]

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 made a Family Reunification application with respect to his wife in January 2009.

The application was forwarded to the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner as required under Section 18 of the Refugee Act 1996.

The investigation was completed in June 2009 and a report was forwarded to INIS.

I am further informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service that a letter recently issued to the person's legal representatives requesting additional information.

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.