Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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370. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to request the renewal of a Garda Síochána National Immigration Bureau Card for a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5979/16]

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 person mentioned by the Deputy arrived in the State on 15/09/1999 and that their most recent permission to remain in the State, on the basis of marriage to an Irish National, expired on 23/04/2015.

As this permission was not renewed, it would therefore seem that this person has remained in the State without permission which is in breach of Section 5 (1) of the Immigration Act 2004 which provides that no non-EEA national may be in the State other than in accordance with the terms of any permission given to them by or on behalf of the Minister.

I understand that the person concerned made an application to INIS, at the end of February 2016 , for permission to remain in the State, as the spouse of an Irish National, and that this application is currently being processed. All applications are dealt with in strict chronological order; the processing time is currently 6-9 months.

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 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 Parliamentary Question 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.