Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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345. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the procedure to be followed by a person (details supplied) in County Carlow who arrived here as an accompanied minor, aged 13 years. [14103/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy was granted permission to travel to and reside in the State on the 4th February 2004 as the subject of an application for Family Reunification by his father.

The person referred to by the Deputy should continue to register with the Garda National Immigration Bureau as the approved subject of an application for Family Reunification.

The Deputy may wish to note that 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 established specifically 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.