AIBU to feel miffed about my family getting Irish passports?

[Honeysucklelane]

AIBU to feel miffed my DH & kids are getting Irish passports? They all have UK passports and it seems a luxury to pay twice.

I can’t get an Irish passport, but my DH and DC’s can. I’ve pointed out I’ll be stuck in the long non-EU queues at airports whilst they go ahead through the EU queue.

Realistically unless any of them travel somewhere alone, it’s highly unlikely they’ll be with other family or friends with Irish passports so they’ll always be waiting on whoever they’re travelling with anyway so what is the point?

DH was very sheepish when a neighbour popped round with the signed forms this evening and was avoiding telling me what he’d dropped round for.

But i dont get why you can't have one

Youre the mother of Irish descendants and the wife of an Irish man?

Yanbu x

Honestly that is ridiculous. You really do need to grow up.

Irish passports are the exception to that rule.

No we aren't ive been in the airport and irish sail through.

She'd need to live in Ireland for 5 years to get one

This is the bit that pisses off me and quite a few more Irish, so many people from the UK and the US are applying for Irish passports but it has nothing to do with them having any interest, affiliation or love of Ireland but simply for ease of travel. I wish the grandparent rule would be looked at and reconsidered.

They can choose to travel on UK or Irish passports whenever they travel. So maybe suggest they take UK passports when you are all together? Then when your kids holiday without you, or live abroad, they can use the Irish one.

Of course, your DH can go and live abroad too. Is that what worries you?

I have both passports. I use the Irish one if travelling alone but the UK one if I am with people I'll have to wait for in the other queue anyway.

Ahh thanks for this! You’ve totally fixed me, well done!! I salute you.

‘Don’t be anxious’ is like telling someone not to be physically ill, do you think anxious people want to be anxious?? They don’t, it’s an awful thing to suffer from, especially when strangers on the internet bash them.

Same, there are lots of people who still dont think much of us Irish or have treated Irish appallingly in their countries but they are first in line for one of our passports.

Why not? It’s an admin exercise and in many places allows them to fully integrate into society. Especially if you intend to stay permanently. I was unable to vote or do certain jobs without being naturalised where I was living. Why would I shun that due to an accident of birth.

Also to your point - you would not get a German passport, despite living there as you were from elsewhere. That’s the logic that has allowed her children to have Irish passports.

Ah okay

Because she has never resided there. Merely marrying and Irish man and having kids with him isn’t enough to get a passport.

Thanks for your comment, I will grow up and stop being anxious now. I was just waiting on someone to tell me to grow up, cheers!

I can't believe that you care more about waiting in a queue than you care about your kids having opportunities. YABVVVU

He’s not Irish Tbf, his parents are. He’s never lived there, born and brought up here. And we’ve only been there once in the 22 years we’ve been together.

I’d be concentrating on why my dh was an underhand sneak. Why wouldn’t passports be a family discussion?

3 years if you're married to an Irish citizen.

His parents are Irish, he was born here and brought up here.

I cannot believe there is anything to be miffed about.

Because I’m anxious about being left in a queue on my own and then trying to find them afterwards.

I mean i'll still be pursuing a hot irish husband but that is disappointing

Ok but my point stands. Merely marrying somebody with an Irish passport is not enough to get one.

I mean you're choosing to be worried about it. Just think about it. Nothing bad will happen. They'll wait for you on the other side or at baggage reclaim. You have a phone to text them.

Good luck!

@Bushmillsbabe check it out, if you live in Bushmills you could end up eligible, I don't think it has to be the Republic of Ireland, just island of.

If you just drink Bushmills and don't live there then please ignore!