Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status and/or entitlement to naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13557/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I can inform the Deputy that the application has entered the final stage of processing and I intend to grant citizenship. A letter issued on 7 March 2013 to the person referred to by the Deputy asking her to submit the prescribed certification fee and other documents. Following receipt of the required documentation her application will be finalised and she will be invited in due course to a citizenship ceremony at which the declaration of fidelity to the Irish Nation and loyalty to the State is made and certificate of naturalisation is issued. The person referred to currently has permission to remain in the State until 25 May 2013.

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.