Written answers

Thursday, 10 December 2015

Department of Justice and Equality

Travel Documents

Photo of Bernard DurkanBernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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122. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a temporary travel pass and visa will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44584/15]

Photo of Frances FitzgeraldFrances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department advises me that in exceptional cases an application for Irish temporary travel document may be considered in respect of qualifying non Irish nationals who are resident in Ireland. In all such cases, INIS must be satisfied that there is no alternative open to the applicant before an Irish temporary travel document will issue. The person concerned has to show that they have made reasonable and formal efforts to obtain a national passport, that it has been formally and unreasonably refused and that their own consular authorities are unable to offer consular assistance to them whilst resident in the State.

I am informed by INIS that the Travel Document Unit have no record of having received an application for a temporary travel document in respect of the person concerned.

It is open to the person in question to submit an application for a temporary travel document accompanied by the relevant supporting documentation to the Travel Document Unit of INIS which is located at 13-14 Burgh Quay, Dublin 2. Full information in this regard and the applicable application form is available at "www.inis.gov.ie".

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.

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