I am informed by the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) that the person referred to by the Deputy attended his local Immigration Office in Maynooth on 3 January, 2012. The person referred to by the Deputy was issued with a Stamp 2 residency permission which expires on the 10 November, 2012.
Queries in relation to the status of individual immigration cases may be made directly to INIS by e-mail 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 information by way of the Parliamentary Questions process. The Deputy may consider using the e-mail service except in cases where the response from INIS is, in the Deputy's view, inadequate or too long awaited.