Hi all
So I have an Irish passport (Irish father on my birth cert and have lived the last two decades here) but am also a British citizen (I have a British mother, was born there, and lived the first ten years of my life there). I'm happy enough with my Irish passport, but want to return to the UK some day, and with Brexit still fairly up in the air, it seemed like a good idea to apply for a British passport and make it official.
The trouble is the only way to do that from Ireland is online. I've been going through the process but have the feeling I'll just be throwing my money away, because I don't have someone in a registered profession, not related to me and resident in the UK for the last two years or more, who can verify my identity. Nor can I get a hold of my mother's original birth cert to send them. Without these two things, am I right in saying my application would be denied and I won't be refunded the nearly €150 euro I would by that stage have paid towards it?
I can't understand why it's so hard for me to get a passport on my own terms. I'm as British as anyone else, aren't I? I can provide my own birth cert and every address I lived at in the UK. I can provide enough details about my mother to confirm I am who I say I am. The only reason I didn't apply years ago was the cost and the fact that we were all in the EU, so it seemed unnecessary. I'm really surprised it's turned out so hard to do. Am I even a British citizen anymore? Suddenly I don't feel like one.
Has anyone else gone through this process? Am I just wasting time and money? I'd really appreciate some insight 