Written answers

Thursday, 26 January 2012

Department of Justice, Equality and Defence

Residency Permits

5:00 pm

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 177: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for upgrade from Stamp 2 to Stamp 4 will be considered in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4695/12]

Photo of Alan ShatterAlan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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It is open to the persons concerned to make an application to change their immigration status by writing to the General Immigration Division, Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS), 13/14 Burgh Quay, Dublin 2. However, I have been informed that the persons concerned arrived in the State on 19 May 2006 and were granted permission to remain here as students. Unless there has been a change to their circumstances of which INIS has not been informed, it would appear that they do not qualify for the grant of a stamp 4 permission. I would suggest that they consult the INIS website inis.gov.ie/immigration which provides information on the criteria in relation to the various immigration permission.

Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to the 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 the INIS is, in the Deputy's view, inadequate or too long awaited.

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