Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 201: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date and or procedures to be followed in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who is resident here for the past 13 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1821/12]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person concerned was granted residence for 5 years on the basis of EU Treaty Rights on 21 October 2003. The person in question was subsequently granted a further 5 year period under EU Treaty Rights on 24 November 2007.

The current position is that, following the granting of permission on 24 November 2007, the individual's passport was stamped with the appropriate permission (Stamp 4EUFam) by the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) until the passport's expiry date of 30 July 2011. On the 18 August 2011 the individual attended the GNIB seeking to have the remainder of his permission registered and to receive a further residence card. The individual, however, failed to present a valid passport to GNIB for registration and was informed that he must do so before he can be granted the remainder of his permission. To date the individual in question has failed to present a valid passport to GNIB.

Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to INIS by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this purpose. This service enables up to date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek information by way of the Parliamentary Questions process. The Deputy may consider using the e-mail service except in cases where the response from INIS is, in the Deputy's view, inadequate or too long awaited.