Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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176. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding residency-entitlement to naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47576/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The parents of the person concerned were granted temporary permission to remain in 2000, under the arrangements then applicable to non-EEA national parents of children born in Ireland prior to January, 2005. I am informed that the person concerned registered with his local immigration officer for temporary permission to remain in the State, under stamp 2A conditions, from 8 October, 2012 until 1 September, 2013.

Should the person concerned wish to seek a renewal of his temporary permission to remain in the State, he should submit a written request to my officials in the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department c/o PO Box 10003, Dublin 1. He should enclose with his request evidence of his current address, his original passport, two passport size photographs signed on the back, his original birth certificate and letters from all schools attended to prove continuous residency in the State. Upon receipt of the appropriate documentation, his case will be examined and a decision communicated to him in due course.

An application for a certificate of naturalisation has been received on behalf of the person concerned and is currently being processed.

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.