Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which residency status will be extended in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38199/16]

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 concerned entered the State on 1 November 2014 and was registered on Stamp 2 student permission conditions on 5 December 2014. It is noted that the person concerned has permission to remain in the State until 5 December 2016 on such conditions.

I wish to advise the Deputy, however, that the Residence Division of INIS does not currently have any current application for the person before them. Should they wish to change the status of their immigration permission in the State, then the person concerned should make an application to the Residence Division of INIS setting out the details of their case before their permission expires. Information on application types, qualifying criteria, and required documentation are available on the INIS website.

The Deputy may wish to note that 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 the Parliamentary Question process. The Deputy may consider using the e-mail service except in questions where the response from INIS is, in the Deputy's view, inadequate or too long awaited.