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To think it's cheeky to apply for an Irish passport because of brexit?

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MyheartbelongstoG · 11/08/2017 16:10

Just that really.

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DarklyDreamingDexter · 15/08/2017 02:22

I'm planning on applying as soon as I can source my grandmother's birth certificate. Probably is a bit cheeky to be fair, as it wouldn't have occurred to me pre-Brexit!

abilockhart · 15/08/2017 19:30

DarklyDreamingDexter, I'm doing the same.

With the way things are going at the moment, we'd be fools not to!

Theworldisfullofidiots · 15/08/2017 19:45

I don't see it as cheeky. We've thoroughly funked Ireland by this decision. At least this way they get some money, however little.

notevernotnevernotnohow · 15/08/2017 19:48

But many say ROI (Republic of Ireland) just because it is easy to distinguish it from NI

Ireland distinguishes is from NI!

abilockhart · 15/08/2017 19:53

We've thoroughly funked Ireland by this decision. At least this way they get some money, however little.

We've thoroughly funked ourselves as well.

Theworldisfullofidiots · 15/08/2017 21:42

abilockhart Grin

BrandNewHouse · 16/08/2017 08:25

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StrangeLookingParasite · 16/08/2017 11:43

I just feel sick a lot of the time. We live here (France) on my husband's British passport (British by descent). What will happen to us? No-one knows. We've made a life for ourselves here, are we going to lose everything?

BrandNewHouse · 16/08/2017 13:47

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Mesgegra · 16/08/2017 14:16

What would a Norwegian person have to do if they were living in France? Can you look in to doing that?

StrangeLookingParasite · 16/08/2017 15:14

We're all Australian by birth. We've been here for eight years now. I am going to try for French citizenship (which I wanted anyway ) but it's hard and they may say no. And we will lose everything. I would rather die than be forced to return to my birth country.

notevernotnevernotnohow · 16/08/2017 15:23

You can move to Britain if you have to leave France?

Mesgegra · 16/08/2017 15:24

Blimey. That is pretty rough. I hope it won't come to that.. it seems unl8kely, but so many things i thought were unlikely have happen3d in the last 14 months.
Line up your ducks.

Mesgegra · 16/08/2017 15:27

Yes, britain or australia. I know nobody wan5s to relocate on somebody else's say so but Australia and Britain, those are options that others would be del8ght3d with. I am sympathetic tho. I wouldnt want to be nervously awaiting clarification on whether i could invest in to the ground beneath my feet.

BrandNewHouse · 16/08/2017 16:54

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Lucysky2017 · 16/08/2017 19:34

What is wrong with the birth country of Australia! Loads of British people would love to meet the criteria to live there.

Golondrina · 16/08/2017 19:40

Cos it's not where she's made her life? I assume they are in France because they are currently British and therefore European, but soon won't be. I could technically go back to the UK after Brexit (been in Spain for 17 years), but it's not as easy as that.

SwedishEdith · 16/08/2017 19:52

God, there must be so many situations like this. Awful. I know NZers in UK here on Irish by descent passport. They've made their lives here.

StrangeLookingParasite · 16/08/2017 19:58

What is wrong with the birth country of Australia! Loads of British people would love to meet the criteria to live there.

Splendid for them; they can knock themselves out.
I hate the place, and felt more at home here in the first two weeks than I did in forty years in Australia.

God I'm so afraid. I suppress it most of the time, but it feels like I'm falling off a cliff. Or being pushed.

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SunshineAndSmile · 16/08/2017 21:32

The worst was my very pro Brexit, EU hating, Britain for the British FIL proudly declaring a few days after the vote that he was applying for an Irish passport so he didn't have any hassle going on holiday Angry

As an Irish person

SunshineAndSmile · 16/08/2017 21:35

...sorry angry typing too fastBlush

As an Irish person having listened to his Daily Mail type rants about bloody foreigners I think voting for Brexit and then getting an Irish passport is totally hypocritical.

KnackeredOldWoman01 · 17/08/2017 11:01

Can I ask a question please regarding applying to be added to the Irish Foreign Births register:

It states on the form that the form must be signed in the presence of a witness ( must be a doctor, solicitor, judge etc)

It says on the form: I certify that the applicant is personally known to me...

So does that mean that this person must be a friend of yours or an employer? If I turned up at the solicitors office with photo ID is that not acceptable? It's not clear how they define 'personally' I've tried to contact the embassy but I can't get through.

I'm getting really stressed out by it

KnackeredOldWoman01 · 17/08/2017 11:06

Sorry but I'm bumping as I'm running out of time and I can't get through to the embassy

Lucysky2017 · 17/08/2017 11:09

I am a solicitor. I would only sign something saying someone is known to me if they were known to me (eg sometimes neighbours I know come round to get me to sign passports and I do if they are known to me). Whereas if I am asked to certify a photograph in front of me looks the same as the person sitting in front of me then I am happy to do sign that. Basically I would not risk losing my career over signing something that is not true.