Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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156. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a foreign births registration application will be expedited to allow a person (details supplied) to provide proof of nationality for student grant purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2156/17]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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Applications for Foreign Births Registration generally take between four and six months to process from the time all the required documentation has been submitted. In light of the exceptional circumstances in the case to which the Deputy refers, the Foreign Births Registration Unit in my Department expedited the processing of this application. I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the Foreign Birth Registration Certificate was issued on 5 January 2017.