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by Conejo77 » Fri May 02, 2014 11:42 pm
Hi Janet0001,
Unfortunately, the Naturalization-INIS-guys will know about your problem because of the Police statements.
Example: One of my friends had a similar problem when drinking in a pub a few years ago. He applied 9 months earlier and his application got rejected because of that (he didn't say anything to the INIS-guys thinking they wouldn't know).
My advice is: ask for a letter in the garda Station, so they can clarify if you are innocent, and send it with a message to the INIS-guys in Tipperary. In your message you can explain your situation and that YOU PROMISE you won't do it again. If you are guilty, ask Garda to be nice in the letter they draft and be extra-nice in the message you send. INIS-guys are human too and they will balance good deed and bad deed in your situation (they will definitely take in account your 15 years of good behavior).
Don't let time pass or they might cross reference your name/ppsn with any incident reported in Garda Database. I'm an IT analyst/engineer at IBM and we do this kind of service for INIS-guys every fortnight and I can tell you that even if we just have a name INIS-guys ask us to pull as much information as possible from reports (address, age, ppsn, phone number, etc).
I'm sorry to ear what happen, but take action and don't be a victim twice.
Good look.
Conejo77