What's best dual passport or Irish

[feckingknackered]

My family are Irish and live in Ireland, I was born in England and live in UK. I want to change my passport, what are the differences, advantages or disadvantages of either a dual nationality passport or an Irish one?

You can't get a dual nationality passport. You have either a UK one, and Irish one, or one of each.

@titchy oops, no idea where I got that idea from 😳

Ok I mean shall I get Uk and Irish passport or just Irish?

As above with duel nationality you have a passport from each country. Disadvantages.. You have to pay twice each time you renew (you pay for each passport).
Advantages.. You use whichever passport has the least visa restrictions / works best for each trip, and it can be a way to link to your second nationality.

Due to historic reasons Irish citizens have permanent rights to live/work/vote etc in the UK even after Brexit. Ireland remains in the EU, and such that passport gives freedom of movement across the continent, whereas the UK spaffed away those opportunities for its citizens.

There’s no need to get, or advantage in getting, a British passport in your circumstances. Get the Irish one and be glad you have that option, many of us don’t.

@Eellet those are exactly the reasons I want an Irish passport. Particularly so my children can also have the option. I just wasn't sure whether there would be any disadvantage of not having a uk passport.
Thank you

I'd hold on to the irish one.
You can go everywhere in UK and Ireland and the EU with an Irish one. What advantages do you get with a UK passport? Is it possible to go to Australia or Canada without a visa?

I think the Irish one is cheaper, too!

Thanks so much everyone, Irish passport it is!!

@feckingknackered depending I’m your actual circumstances (not entirely clear from your OP), your children won’t be automatically eligible to obtain an Irish passport just by virtue of you having one.

You may have to register them on the Foreign births register before they can. Currently it seems there around a 2 year processing wait and a fee.

Just in case this is something you need to look into.

Ffs excuse typos!

Out of the two, Irish for sure. But I have both, because I can. Maybe when the UK Comes to renewal I may not bother as Brexit has removed any valid reason to have one, unfortunately.

@Recycledcurtains my dad is Irish/ born in Ireland. What would I need to do to allow my children to apply for Irish passports?
Thanks for your reply

Foreign births register

I hope this works…

I know it’s the norm on here to loathe anything British, but if I were you I’d have one of each.

@choolaboola we all have both in our house because we can.

I am actually renewing the British one currently (I too thought I wouldn’t be arsed) so we don’t end up in a scenario where we never have a valid passport 🤣

The passport fiasco of the last few years was enough to scare the be jaysis out of me! I know die hard NI Republicans who now have British passports when the bloody Irish ones didn’t come back in time!

You can always look at the Henley Passport Index:

www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index/ranking

A British and Irish passport gets you access to the same number of countries.

@Recycledcurtains perfect thank you, that's really helpful.

Do you just mean you don't want to renew your UK passport, and instead have an Irish one? Or do you mean you want to renounce your UK citizenship and just have Irish citizenship? That's a formal process and there would be no advantage to doing it, and many, many disadvantages.

@DownNative brilliant, thank you. I'm not seeing any reason to have a British one at all. I'm not in any rush for it either so if it takes ages it doesn't matter .

I’d get both. No harm in having both and you never know what might change in the future.

@teezletangler just get an Irish passport instead of British. Would that mean I'm renouncing uk citizenship? I'm really grateful for all this advice, I don't want to do the wrong thing!

@RedRed20 could I apply for a new British one in the future though if needed rather than wasting money in the meantime
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I was born in the U.K. to an Irish mother. My son was born in Ireland when I was working there.
We currently both have Irish passports but I’m getting us UK renewals too. Always good to have two passports to save any dramas when one is due to expire!

Seeing that you are living in the U.K., I’d keep the British passport too.

you never know what will happen in 20 years time. You and your dcs might well appreciate to have a British passport.

wtfw you don’t have to renew your passport etc… if you dint want to. What’s important is your citizenship and keeping bith will give you the best if both worlds