Passport application from UK

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I am applying for an Irish passport for DS (age 5) and I can't find our marriage certificate! Are they really going to check for it? Surely DS is entitled to Irish citizenship via an Irish father whether we are married or not? I kept my maiden name and DS is hyphenated. We will be going to the London office if that makes a difference.

Were you married in the UK? If so you can order a marriage certificate from gov.uk. Why do you think you need one, though?

It says on the DFA website that I need it Walking

www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/great-britain/passports/how-to-apply-for-a-passport/#

Yes, married in the UK. I resent paying the £14 but it's better than showing up and getting turned away I guess!

I didn't need to include a marriage cert when applying for my DC's passport when we lived in the UK. We claimed his citizenship through me (arbitrarily - both DH and I Irish-born) and all I had to include was my long-form birth cert.

If it isn't urgent, you could ask the the passport office in London for clarification. They're v busy but they were helpful to me before when I needed to clarify obscure details.

It's annoying but I think you have to supply it - which is weird, as if you weren't married, what would you do!!

My DH is English, and we were married in Ireland but I've always sent off their birth certs (they were born in the UK), our marriage cert and my birth cert. In fact, I've ordered two extra birth certs and put them in their memory boxes so they always have my birth cert to renew.