Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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801. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the stamp 4 visa application in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14083/14]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the persons mentioned by the Deputy availed of the 2004 Student Probationary extension in 2012 and as such were given two years permission to remain in the State and were given the right to work on a full time basis. Their current permission to remain will expire on 19 September 2014 and at that point they will qualify to apply for a Stamp 4 permission.

This information was issued to their legal representative on 19 December 2012 on foot of the applications detailed by the Deputy.

Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to INIS by email 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 email service except in cases where the response from INIS is, in the Deputy's view, inadequate or too long awaited.