Written answers

Thursday, 8 October 2015

Department of Justice and Equality

Residency Permits

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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126. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current position regarding the residency status and eligibility for naturalisation of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35099/15]

Photo of Frances FitzgeraldFrances 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 there is no record of an application for a right of residency in the State, accompanied by the right to work, based on parentage of an Irish citizen child in respect of the person referred to by the Deputy.

I am also informed that INIS has recently developed a new application form for these type of applications and further information on the application process, including guidelines for completing the form, can be found on the INIS website www.inis.gov.ie.

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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127. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding residency status and eligibility for naturalisation of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35101/15]

Photo of Frances FitzgeraldFrances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I can inform the Deputy that an application for a certificate of naturalisation has been received from the person referred to and that it has entered the final stage of processing. A letter has issued to the person concerned advising that I intend to grant her application and asking her to submit the prescribed fee and other documents. When the fee and documentation has been received, the person concerned will be invited in due course to attend a citizenship ceremony, at which she will make a declaration of fidelity to the Irish Nation and loyalty to the State, give an undertaking to faithfully observe the laws of the State and to respect its democratic values and receive her certificate of naturalisation.

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.

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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129. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the residency status and, if applicable, eligibility for naturalisation of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35103/15]

Photo of Frances FitzgeraldFrances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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If the person whose details were supplied has made an application for asylum or subsidiary protection in the State, the Deputy will be aware that it is not the practice to comment on such applications until they have fully completed the protection process. This is in accordance with Section 19 of the Refugee Act 1996 (as amended) which provides for the protection of the identity of asylum applicants.

The Deputy will be aware that protection applicants are issued with a temporary residence permission pending a final determination on their application.

The question of naturalisation does not arise at this time in the case of the person whose details were supplied.

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