Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration

1. Record of how many join family visas (spouse of an Irish citizen) are currently waiting to be processed. 2. Figures/record on how many of this visa have been ‘scanned’ and how many are waiting to be ‘scanned’ (as the processing date for application is the date of scanning according to visa customer services). 3. Record of how many civil servants are employed by the Department to process this particular visa. 4. Record of the average response time for this specific visa over the last 12 months.