Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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529. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date regarding an application for a visa in the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49371/13]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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The visa application referred to by the Deputy was received in the Visa Office, Abuja, on 29 August 2013.

Following full consideration, the Visa Officer decided to refuse the grant of the visa on 8 October 2013. The specific reasons for the application being refused are contained in the refusal letter, which has issued to the person concerned.

It is open to the person concerned to appeal the decision to refuse the visa. An appeal must be made within two months of the date of refusal, in this instance before 8 December 2013. Where doing so, the applicant should be in a position to address the reasons for the refusal. Guidelines regarding the visa appeals procedure are available on the website of the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service - .

Queries in relation to general immigration matters 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.