Written Answers - Citizenship Applications Thursday, 26 May 2011

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  83.  Deputy Bernard J. Durkan      asked the Minister for Justice and Equality      the procedures to be followed in order to validate the application for naturalisation in the case of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13209/11]

Minister for Justice and Equality (Deputy Alan Shatter):    Officials in the Citizenship section of my Department inform me that there is no record of an application for a certificate of naturalisation from the person referred to in the Deputy’s question.

Section 15 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, as amended, provides that the Minister may, in his absolute discretion, grant an application for a certificate of naturalisation provided certain statutory conditions are fulfilled. The conditions are that the applicant must—

In the context of naturalisation, certain periods of residence in the State are excluded. These include—

It is open to any individual to lodge an application for citizenship if and when they are in a position to meet the statutory requirements as prescribed in the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 as amended.

I shouldremind the Deputy that queries in relation to the status of individual Immigration cases may be made direct to INIS by Email using the Oireachtas Mail facility which has been specifically established for this purpose. The service enables up-to-date information on such cases to be obtained without the need to seek this information through the more administratively expensive Parliamentary Questions process.

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