Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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1149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options that are available to a person (details supplied) to have their spouse and child join them in this jurisdiction, whose application for family reunification was recently refused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2225/23]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I can inform the Deputy that following full consideration, the Family Reunification application you refer to was refused. A letter issued on the 30 June 2022 outlines the reasons for this refusal.

The applicants should be advised that other immigration avenues remain open for new applications, including visa applications. Syrian nationals are visa-required and must have a valid Irish visa before they seek to enter the State. Any visa-required national who wishes to enter the State, and remain for up to 90 days must have a Type C Short Stay Visa. A visa-required national who wishes to reside in the State for longer than 90 days must have a Type D Long Stay Visa.

Any person who wishes to make a visa application must do so online at:

www.visas.inis.gov.ie/avats/OnlineHome.aspx.

Ireland supports the entry of migrants through a number of pathways, to facilitate legal migration into the State. These include arrangements for various categories of persons, including; workers, business persons, the Immigrant Investor Programme, the Start-up Entrepreneur Programme and international students.

Details of these legal pathways can be found on the Immigration Service website at the following link:

www.irishimmigration.ie/.

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 (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 Questions process. The Deputy may consider using the e-mail service except in cases where the response is, in the Deputy's view, inadequate or too long awaited.