Written answers
Wednesday, 20 September 2023
Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Citizenship Applications
Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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691. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the case of a child (details supplied), whose parents applied for a citizenship application which was refused due to the child not having five years' residency at the time of application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39978/23]
Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The Citizenship Division of my Department has advised that the correspondence issued on 1 September 2023 to the guardian referred to by the Deputy was issued in error.
While the Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provision) Act 2023 was enacted on the 31st July 2023, Citizenship Division were going through a transitional period to update and implement the changes.
Unfortunately during this time the application made on behalf of the child referred to by the Deputy was dealt with incorrectly. This error is greatly regretted.
The Citizenship Division have now written directly to the named guardian to apologise for the error and requesting the application form and documents be resubmitted and will be dealt with upon receipt to ensure no further delays to the processing are incurred.
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