Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a stamp 3 provided in the cases of persons (details supplied) can be upgraded to stamp 4, given that their mother is an Irish citizen, that all persons have been in Ireland since 2006, who have all attended primary and secondary school in Ireland, who are unable to contribute given their pending citizenship applications, whose father is a Canadian citizen with a stamp 4, and whose parents both work in healthcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55683/22]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The people referred to by the Deputy can attend at their local immigration office to request a change of their immigration permission. 

Otherwise they may also write to Unit 5 in the Domestic Residence and Permissions division of my Department by email or post at the contact details provided below.

FamilyDependentUnit@justice.ie.

Domestic Residence and Permissions Division – Unit 5

Immigration Service Delivery

PO Box 12695

Dublin 2

It may also be open to them to contact the Department of Foreign Affairs regarding the Foreign Births Register and Irish Citizenship, details available here:  www.dfa.ie/about-us/contact-us/contact-foreign-birth-registration-citizenship/.

Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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104. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date in the determination of an application as part of the undocumented persons scheme in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55714/22]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The application for the person referred to by the Deputy was received by the Undocumented Unit of my Department on 19 July 2022 and continues to be processed. Due to the large number of applications on hand it is not possible to provide a definitive timeframe for a decision to issue.

The processing times of applications will vary depending on the complexity of the application, whether it is a single or family application, the supporting documentation and the vetting process with An Garda Síochána (AGS). Applications where there is an existing deportation order will require additional processing.

Each application received is assessed individually in accordance with the published criteria, available on my Department's immigration website at: www.irishimmigration.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Undocumented-Policy-Scheme-January-2022.pdf.

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.