Written answers
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Department of Justice and Equality
Immigration Status
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 133 of 25 September 2014, if a further copy of the letter of 21 August 2014 may issue to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42559/14]
Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned replied to INIS' letter of 21 August 2014 and that INIS is in correspondence with the applicant at a different address than that given by the Deputy.
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.
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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124. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position in regard to naturalisation or updated stamp 4 in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42560/14]
Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned is the subject of a Deportation Order made on 5 August 2014, and therefore has no entitlement to naturalisation.
The Deputy might wish to note that the person concerned has never held a right of residency in this State of a nature that would have allowed them to take up a position of paid employment.
The effect of the Deportation Order is that the person concerned must leave the State and remain thereafter outside the State. The enforcement of the Deportation Order is an operational matter for the Garda National Immigration Bureau.
Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to the INIS of my Department 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.
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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125. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if provision may be made to upgrade or update from stamp 2 to stamp 4 residency in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42562/14]
Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department, that the person referred to by the Deputy does not have an application with INIS. This person should be advised to write to the INIS Residence Division on the matter raised by the Deputy.
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.
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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126. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding residency status or leave to remain in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Laois. [42570/14]
Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the person concerned arrived in the State on 24 April, 2008 and made an application for asylum on 25 April, 2008. The Refugee Applications Commissioner refused a declaration of refugee status by letter dated 24 September, 2008. This decision was subsequently upheld by the Refugee Appeals Tribunal on 18 February, 2011.
On 16 March, 2011 the person concerned was informed that it was proposed to make a Deportation Order and was invited to apply for Subsidiary Protection and to make representations under Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999. The Subsidiary Protection application was refused and this was notified to the person concerned on 29th August 2011. Following consideration of the representations made pursuant to Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999, a Deportation order was signed on 07 September, 2011. The person concerned was notified by letter dated 09 September, 2011.
The person concerned instituted Judicial Review proceedings on 21 March, 2013 challenging the refusal of Subsidiary Protection and seeking to quash the deportation order issued in respect of them and accordingly, as the matter is sub judice, I do not propose to comment further.
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.
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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127. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding the determination of residency status, leave to remain or subsidiary protection in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42571/14]
Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The question of residency status or leave to remain does not arise at this time in the case of the person whose details were supplied. If the person concerned has made an application for asylum or subsidiary protection, the Deputy will be aware that it is not the practice to comment on such applications for so long as they remain in the protection process.
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