Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when stamp 4 will issue in the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46414/18]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) of my Department that the persons concerned entered the State in 2001. The first person concerned was granted permission to remain in the State, on a stamp 4 basis, on the basis of parentage of an Irish citizen child on 20 January 2003, and was granted citizenship on 14 June 2012.

I am further informed that the second person concerned was registered as a dependent of the first person concerned on a stamp 3 basis by the Garda National Immigration Bureau (GNIB) on 11 November 2014. This permission was renewed for a further period of 1 year on 10 May 2018 by GNIB and the person concerned was advised to write to the INIS. An application requesting a change of status to stamp 4 was received on 1 November 2018. The INIS wrote to the second person concerned seeking further information and documentation on 6 November 2018. The matter will be considered further by INIS in light of a response.

Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to the INIS of my Department 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.