Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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337. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when naturalisation will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied); if stamp 4 will be renewed as a first stage towards naturalisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10785/22]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The person referred to by the Deputy was the holder of a valid immigration permission in the State until 21 October 2016. My Department wrote to the person concerned on 25 October 2016 and again on 1 September 2020 advising that all applications for permission to remain in the State on the basis of parentage of an Irish citizen child from a non-EEA parent must be submitted using the Irish citizen child application form. No such application has been received to date by my Department.

It remains open to them to submit an Irish citizen child application and to regularise their immigration permission in the State. The application form is available on my Department's website at: www.irishimmigration.ie/my-situation-has-changed-since-i-arrived-in-ireland/the-parent-of-an-irish-citizen-child/.

Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to my Department by e-mail using the Oireachtas Mail facility at INISOireachtasMail@justice.ie, 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 Question process. The Deputy may consider using the e-mail service except in the cases where the response is, in the Deputy's view, inadequate or too long awaited.