Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 373: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will set out the procedure to date in the determination of residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; the current or expected status in their case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11233/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I refer the Deputy to the reply to Parliamentary Question Number 541 of 12 January 2011. I am informed that on 15 February 2011, the permission of the person concerned was renewed by her local Immigration Office and is currently valid up to 5 October 2013.

I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration/Asylum cases may be made directly 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

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 374: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the family reunification issue in the case of the spouse of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11234/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that the person concerned was granted permission to remain in the State for two years in 2005, under the revised arrangements for the non-EEA parents of children born in Ireland prior to 1 January, 2005, known as the IBC/05 Scheme. The permission to remain was renewed for a further three years in 2007 and is currently valid to 6 April 2013.

I have been informed that the spouse of the person concerned (who was not named as such on her initial asylum application), entered the State on several occasions having been granted 90 day visitors visas. However, after the expiry of the last visa in 2007, he remained illegally in the State until 4 May 2010, when he was deported having had a deportation order made against him following a detailed examination of his case. As the Deputy is aware, the granting of permission to remain under the IBC/05 Scheme, does not confer any entitlement or legitimate expectation on any other person, whether related to the person granted permission or not, to enter the State. All applicants to the Scheme signed an undertaking to this effect both in 2005 and on renewal in 2007 and in the circumstances I do not propose to revoke the deportation order made in this case.

I should remind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration/Asylum 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.