Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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355. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for a visa by a person (details supplied). [5602/16]

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 visa application in respect of the person referred to by the Deputy was refused on 6th of October 2015. This decision was appealed by the applicant and the original decision was upheld. A letter advising of this decision was issued on the 29th of January 2016.

It is of course open to the applicant to submit a fresh application at any time. He should, however, be in a position to address the previous refusal reasons prior to making a new application.

The Deputy may wish to note that 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.

In addition, applicants may themselves e-mail queries directly to INIS (visamail@justice.ie).