Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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237. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current and expected position in regard to long-term residency and eligibility for naturalisation for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22 whose spouse is a holder of Stamp 4 status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37102/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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Following the refusal of their asylum claim, the person concerned was invited to lodge an application for subsidiary protection. I am advised that the person concerned indicated to the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner, by letter dated 7th October, 2015, that they did not wish to apply for subsidiary protection. The case file of the person concerned was then passed to the INIS Ministerial Decisions Unit for the purposes of having a 'notification of a proposal to deport' letter issued under Section 3 of the Immigration Act 1999. This letter will issue shortly and sets out three options for the person concerned; namely to return voluntarily to their country of origin, to consent to the making of a Deportation Order or to submit representations as to why a Deportation Order should not be made.

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.