Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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513. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made to date in respect of a determination of an application for residency status in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2939/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The application referred to by the Deputy was completed on 8th October, 2009 and notification of the decision taken in that application issued to the person in question on the same date. Subsequent correspondence received from the person in question indicated that the original decision letter was not received and therefore a copy of the decision letter re-issued on 4th November, 2011.

I can inform the Deputy that the application referred to by him was not granted as the person in question did not satisfy the full criteria of the Long Term Residency Scheme. However, it is open to the person in question to submit a new application to my Department for consideration. Full details of the eligibility criteria for the Long Term Residency scheme can be found on www.inis.gov.ie.

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.