Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the options available to a person (details supplied) in County Kildare to attend a family event in Poland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50788/12]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy is aware the person concerned submitted an application for a review of the decision to refuse the applicant residence in the State under the provisions of the European Communities (Free Movement of Persons) Regulations 2006 and 2008 (the Regulations) which was received in the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) on the 5 October, 2012. I am advised that the person concerned has been given temporary permission to remain in the State until 4 February, 2013, while the review application is under consideration. A decision will be made on the review application before the expiration of her temporary permission to remain.

I am also advised that while holding the temporary permission to remain the person in question, if a visa required national, should apply for a re-entry visa before leaving the country. There is no requirement for a minimum period of validity of "Stamp 4" permission attaching to such an application.

It may be that this requirement is being imposed by the Polish authorities in respect of a visa to enter that county but I am not in a position to comment on any visa requirements that Poland may apply to visa required visitors.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position and future prospects in respect of persons (details supplied) in Dublin 1 who have studied and worked in this jurisdiction over the past six years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50809/12]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy was registered in the State on student conditions from 9 October 2006 to 14 August 2012 and therefore currently has no permission to remain in the State.

The INIS have informed me that the person has made a written request for further permission to remain dated 2 November, 2012. This application is under consideration. All requests are dealt with in chronological order and my officials will be in touch with the person concerned in due course.

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.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15, a resident here since 1997, whose application for renewal of their stamp 4 was refused on the basis of the loss of their Garda National Immigration Bureau card; the procedures to be followed in such circumstances as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50810/12]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I refer the Deputy to my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 510 of 23 October, 2012 which is set out below. The position is unchanged since then. The onus is on the person concerned to present to the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) to regularise his status in the State, which I am informed that he has failed to do up to the present date.

The permission to remain in the State of the person concerned expired on 8 September, 2012. As this person is now currently out of permission to remain in the State, he should attend the GNIB to register and to advise them of his misplaced GNIB card.

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.