Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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118. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if and when stamp 4 status will issue to facilitate their employment in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42554/14]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation & Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person in question made an application for Long-Term Residence on 27 February 2013.

By letter dated 2 August 2013, the person in question was advised by INIS that they did not qualify for long-term residence on the basis that they did not have the necessary 60 months reckonable residence required, as evidenced by the appropriate Stamp 1 and/or Stamp 4 endorsements on their passport. At the time of their application, the person in question had not renewed their permission to remain since 16 August 2011. It is a requirement of the Long-Term Residency scheme that an applicant be in employment at the time of applying and that they keep their permission to remain up-to-date at all times.

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 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.