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Advice on applying for an Irish passport

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Playingfootball · 26/01/2019 14:27

Maybe posting in the wrong place, if so, sorry.
Is the only way to get an irish passport, as an eligible applicant living in England, to post all my very important documents to Cork? Is there no check and send service at the Irish embassy in London/can I do it in London? Or alternatively I’ll be in Belfast in April, can I do it there(I think not). I can’t find the answers I need on line and am still waiting for an email response. Anyone on here done this and can advise? Thank you.

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williteverend99 · 27/01/2019 20:20

I have to say I find it so highly annoying the amount of British people who have applied for Irish passports post Brexit

Well if they were not Irish they would not be able to apply for an Irish passport would they?
If you object to Irish nationality laws I suggest you advocate for a change in Irish law: go n-éirí leat with that one

Costacoffeeplease · 27/01/2019 20:40

Do you mean Irish people who have applied for passports post brexit? If they were British they wouldn’t be entitled would they?

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Playingfootball · 27/01/2019 20:41

Thanks for all the advice. We’re Greater London, so I think I’ll take it all to the Embassy here and see what they say. I’ll let you know!

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kinseymilhone · 27/01/2019 20:45

Youcantscareme I used a Notary Public based at a local law firm. He signed and stamped all my DDs documents and photos. It cost me £120 but only because I also needed him to witness, sign & seal specific affidavits for each child so there was a huge amount of paperwork for him to deal with and I wanted the peace of mind that it was all done correctly by someone who knew what he was doing. If it's just your form and photos to be done it would be much less!

I'm really regretting sending it all off to Cork now. Wish I had taken it up to Cromwell Road, but we don't have imminent travel plans so I followed the rules according to the website Confused but am now regretting my choices! Having paid so much to get all the correct documents and having sent off documents of sentimental value (late DH's Irish passport, original death certs) I will be absolutely gutted if they go missing or don't get returned. According to Royal Mail my package was delivered to Cork 10 days ago but the applications are still not showing up on the tracking system as having been received Sad

treaclesoda · 27/01/2019 20:47

I'm confused by the section where the photo needs to be validated by someone with an official stamp, grandparents keep telling us it needs to be a policeman, we've tried to explain it doesn't work like that here, not like popping down to the local gardai... Who did any of you use for first applications?

We got ours done by a friend who is a nurse. She signed it and got the ward clerk to stamp it and it was accepted.

Scandaloso · 27/01/2019 20:48

If you have a qualified accountant in the workplace they can sign it.

SmiledWithTheRisingSun · 27/01/2019 20:59

Why on earth does it make one bit of difference to you littleheart?!?!

There are people from almost every country in the world with British passports. Who bloody cares??

Half the country didn't vote for brexit and are really upset about it.

Get the fuck over yourself!!

corlan · 27/01/2019 21:06

kinseymilhone I handed my application in at Cromwell Road and it took 10 days to show up on the tracking system online, so don't worry too much.

lurker101 · 27/01/2019 21:58

@Corlan I was the same - it took about 10 day’s to show online as arrived in Cork for processing. OP I would definitely recommend booking an appointment in London and handing it in - I was in and out in 10 minutes tops, and the counter clerk checked it over and photocopied what he wanted and gave me back my passport

HateIsNotGood · 27/01/2019 22:53

Being not at all Irish myself I did have some curiosity about how the citizens of the RoI were feeling towards this possible huge influx of UK 'Brexit Refugees'

Then remembered that most wouldn't actually move to the RoI but maybe other places in the EU as they were using their 'Irish' heritage to be EUish; as well as UKish, because they probably won't even Leave the UK but just hedging their bets, making a 'backstop', etc.

Anhoo - so littleheart is a "Little Irelander" for mentioning it! Fuck me, have you heard yourselves?

Scandaloso · 27/01/2019 23:38

Yes I've heard myself quite clearly thank you.

Satsumaeater · 28/01/2019 18:20

Firstly Brexit is your problem, you (a democratic majority) caused it, you have to suffer the consequences!! It’s a joke that now non-Irish people, who have never lived here, know nothing about our culture or language are going to be considered citizens and seen as Irish around the world just because you still want to be able to do your two weeks in Spain

How does it affect you, personally?

If I could get Irish (or other EU) citizenship for me (and more particularly for my son) I would definitely apply. I neither voted Tory nor to leave the EU so have zero responsibility for this Fustercluck.

If I had the chance to stop his life chances being prejudiced, I would do so. Sadly for me I can't (so you can enjoy the Schadenfreude of thwarting me).

Satsumaeater · 28/01/2019 18:20

And for the record, I have zero interest in spending 2 weeks in Spain. However, as my son is going to do A level Spanish, he might want to.

shoofly · 28/01/2019 18:27

Reading with interest... born in NI and living here, ....really need to get myself organised but local post office keeps running out of forms. DS1& I UK passports are long out of date, DS2 has never had a passport, am hoping I don't have to send driving licence off as I have no other current photo id

treaclesoda · 28/01/2019 19:16

shoofly they accept a photocopy of your driving licence as long as it is signed and stamped by the same person who witnessed your form and photos.

TalbotAMan · 28/01/2019 19:43

Scandaloso
As an Irish person I would actively encourage any Remain voters who are eligible for an Irish passport to apply for one.

Leave voters who are thinking of doing this, I wish you a lifelong bout of cystitis.

I'm a dual national; my father was Irish and my mother was English. Now they chose to bring me up in the UK, mainly because he couldn't find work in Ireland (and he was a doctor, which shows how bad things were in DeV's Ireland), and now they're both in a cemetery in Cork.

But it's perfectly possible to hold the view, as I do, that generally EEC/EU membership has been bad for the UK and good for Ireland. And that is why, having a vote in the UK, I voted for Leave. I knew it would hurt Ireland, but decided that the harm to the UK from staying was bigger than the harm to Ireland if we left. I was perhaps being a little naive in not anticipating the complete intransigence of Brussels, the posturing of Varadkar, and the monumental incompetence of May coming together to take a difficult problem and make it much, much worse, but so be it.

But because I have dual parentage and dual nationality from birth, I can choose either or both passports, and it's my choice, not yours or anybody else's

Apileofballyhoo · 28/01/2019 20:04

EEC/EU membership has been bad for the UK

the complete intransigence of Brussels, the posturing of Varadkar

Could you explain these points please?

Scandaloso · 28/01/2019 20:09

But because I have dual parentage and dual nationality from birth, I can choose either or both passports, and it's my choice, not yours or anybody else's

And here it is. A leave voter who is eager to remove from others the rights he's greedy to keep for himself.

Utterly nauseating.

treaclesoda · 28/01/2019 20:13

I knew it would hurt Ireland, but decided that the harm to the UK from staying was bigger than the harm to Ireland if we left.

Right, so if I've got this right you think that the possibility of dead Irish people (well, Northern Irish people, so British people in a lot of cases) is less harmful than the EU forcing the UK to have straight bananas? Or bendy bananas. Or whatever the hell it is that the tabloid newspapers like to moan about the EU forcing on the UK.

Scandaloso · 28/01/2019 20:13

By 'the posturing of Varadkar' he means what all his ilk mean 'why doesn't the silly little Paddy be a good boy and do as his former colonial masters tell him'.

It's not like Varadkar has the interests of his own country to look out for Confused

SwedishEdith · 28/01/2019 20:19

I've spoken to an NI person whose mother and mother's friend all voted Leave. After the ref, they were applying for their Irish passports. Utter hypocrites.

Scandaloso · 28/01/2019 20:28

And we know that corrupt half-wit Paisley Jr, DUP knuckle dragger and Brexit superfan, has advised people in NI to get themselves an Irish passport too.

Inniu · 28/01/2019 20:58

People are Getting an Irish passport to retain freedom of movement not to move to Ireland as Brexit Refugees.

Any British person can come in live in Ireland after Brexit as we have a common travel area that predates the EU and after 5 years they can apply to be naturalized.

glutten4punishment · 28/01/2019 21:16

I applied for my husband's first Irish passport by going direct to the embassy (at grosvenor place) in August.

Just make sure you have the form filled out and all necessary documents with you. If they're not right, you'll be asked to come back. Bring extra proof of address etc if you're not sure if what you have will suffice.

I've been there many times over the years and they're always really friendly and helpful.
It's a ticketing system (grab a ticket when you enter) and I've never had to wait more than half an hour. I get there early though.

TalbotAMan · 28/01/2019 21:29

Scandoloso

A leave voter who is eager to remove from others the rights he's greedy to keep for himself.

Utterly nauseating.

Except, of course, that I don't have an Irish passport and don't intend to get one, so while I may have the rights in principle I am not planning to exercise them. Like I said, it's my choice.

But fundamentally, it's not about travel rights, it's about the serious damage that EU membership has done to the UK.