Getting a Passport (Irish Grandparents)

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Does anyone know how to go about doing this from England?
Is there anywhere that can help?

www.citizensinformation.ie/en/travel_and_recreation/passports/applying_for_or_renewing_an_irish_passport.html Check on here to find out if your circumstances mean you can apply online

Thanks 🙏

You have to apply to be added to the Foreign Births Register first, in order to get Irish citizenship, which you need before you apply for a passport.

FBR applications are still not being processed because of the pandemic. Once they do start up again, that part of the process normally takes 18 months.

I’ve been waiting months now for the FBR to start accepting applications again.

Both myself and dh had grandparents born in Ireland. If one of us applied through the FBR and eventually got an Irish passport, could our adult dcs get an Irish passport through us?

@ssd

Both myself and dh had grandparents born in Ireland. If one of us applied through the FBR and eventually got an Irish passport, could our adult dcs get an Irish passport through us?

No. You have to have had Irish citizenship at the time of their birth.

www.dfa.ie/citizenship/born-abroad/registering-a-foreign-birth/

But any Brit can live or work in Ireland without visas due to the Common Travel Area agreement.

@ssd

Both myself and dh had grandparents born in Ireland. If one of us applied through the FBR and eventually got an Irish passport, could our adult dcs get an Irish passport through us?

No. The farthest back you can go is grandparents, For a great grand child to be able to get an Irish passport their parent(s) would need to have been registered as as foreign birth and applied for citizenship before their birth.

@Warmduscher My DC have received their citizenship certificates via FBR during the pandemic so think they are processing again now? Did apply prior to Covid though and did take almost 18 months.

Thats a shame.

[quote WaitinginVain]@Warmduscher My DC have received their citizenship certificates via FBR during the pandemic so think they are processing again now? Did apply prior to Covid though and did take almost 18 months.[/quote]
The website still opens with the statement that they’re not accepting new applications - I looked last week though; haven’t looked this week so far.

@ssd

Both myself and dh had grandparents born in Ireland. If one of us applied through the FBR and eventually got an Irish passport, could our adult dcs get an Irish passport through us?

No, but for anyone else reading, if you'd done it before your kids had been born, then they could have applied.

@Warmduscher My apologies, they are definitely processing but probably the pre-pandemic backlog then. I was not aware of the situation with new applications.

Oh must apply for mine now backlog clearing. I have Irish parents. Want it for my DC

@Warmduscher

You have to apply to be added to the Foreign Births Register first, in order to get Irish citizenship, which you need before you apply for a passport.

FBR applications are still not being processed because of the pandemic. Once they do start up again, that part of the process normally takes 18 months.

I’ve been waiting months now for the FBR to start accepting applications again.

Good to know thanks.

@WaitinginVain. When did you apply and when did you get your certs?

I managed to send everything off last year in a small window before they closed to new applications. Just wondering if I’m waiting 18m from when they acknowledged the docs or should be expecting 18m, plus the time the office has been closed….

@Reallyreallyborednow I submitted my applications on 15 May 2019, so well before the pandemic - at the time they were quoting around 12 months to process. Certificates are dated 15 September 2020, so actually 16 month turnaround.

Thanks. Won’t hold my breath then!

@Warmduscher

You have to apply to be added to the Foreign Births Register first, in order to get Irish citizenship, which you need before you apply for a passport.

FBR applications are still not being processed because of the pandemic. Once they do start up again, that part of the process normally takes 18 months.

I’ve been waiting months now for the FBR to start accepting applications again.

Also been waiting so so long! Any idea when they might resume?

Following! It would be great to know when they reopen 🇮🇪

Im wanting to do this too. My dh’s mum was born in ireland and got hers this summer. Took a few weeks. Dh applied ages and ages ago. I think it has got lost. I want to apply for foreign born for me as my gran was born in Ireland and then foreign born for dc through my mil. It looks ao complicated though.

@Eatenpig If your children have already been born they can’t get citizenship through you. They can get it through your parents if one was born on the island of Ireland.

I'm adopted but have proof that my birth mother was and is Irish and lived there still. I need to apply for mine

I applied for the FBR in September 2018 and that took a year to be approved. My passport application was really quick after that - back within a month.

An astonishing number (30%+?) of uk citizens have Irish heritage, no doubt many eligible for Irish citizenship, and then there’s the entire population of NI also eligible. So, since 2016 and the ensuing layers of the brexit shit sandwich I think the upshot is; good luck!

anyone know if FBR needs separate applications for each individual -- or can I sort both my two kids together at the same time...? Ta!

Sorry please explain slowly.

Children can only become IC if their parents already had an Irish passport before they were born

Unless their grandparent was born in Ireland?

Thanks