Residency requirements for Irish citizenship

Hi Folks,

I am inquiring on behalf of an acquaintance who is in the process of making an application for Irish citizenship. He has been resident in Ireland for the past 6 years on a Stamp 4 permit. However he has a two month interval on his permit from January to March of 2012 due to an illness.

He has his GP letters and proof of ill health, can this be accepted by the Citizenship department as a tenable reason for the gap in residency or should he just wait till next year especially as he has to pay a non-refundable fee of €175.

Looking forward to helpful suggestions/advise, will be particularly glad to hear from applicants who have found themselves in a similar situation.

EUspouse82 wrote:Hi Folks,

I am inquiring on behalf of an acquaintance who is in the process of making an application for Irish citizenship. He has been resident in Ireland for the past 6 years on a Stamp 4 permit. However he has a two month interval on his permit from January to March of 2012 due to an illness.

He has his GP letters and proof of ill health, can this be accepted by the Citizenship department as a tenable reason for the gap in residency or should he just wait till next year especially as he has to pay a non-refundable fee of €175.

Looking forward to helpful suggestions/advise, will be particularly glad to hear from applicants who have found themselves in a similar situation.

Is it a period of absence from the state or gap of stamp from the passport because temporary letter does not count rather than the temporary stamp on the passport if there's any temporary stamps on the passport, a take or specific answer to that effect ?

gnem wrote:

EUspouse82 wrote:Hi Folks,

I am inquiring on behalf of an acquaintance who is in the process of making an application for Irish citizenship. He has been resident in Ireland for the past 6 years on a Stamp 4 permit. However he has a two month interval on his permit from January to March of 2012 due to an illness.

He has his GP letters and proof of ill health, can this be accepted by the Citizenship department as a tenable reason for the gap in residency or should he just wait till next year especially as he has to pay a non-refundable fee of €175.

Looking forward to helpful suggestions/advise, will be particularly glad to hear from applicants who have found themselves in a similar situation.

Is it a period of absence from the state or gap of stamp from the passport because temporary letter does not count rather than the temporary stamp on the passport if there's any temporary stamps on the passport, a take or specific answer to that effect ?

Thanks. It is a gap on the residence stamps on the passport, he has resided in Ireland legally all through the 6 years. he was just unable to go and renew his Stamp 4 at the Gardai station due to ill-health.

EUspouse82 wrote:

gnem wrote:

EUspouse82 wrote:Hi Folks,

I am inquiring on behalf of an acquaintance who is in the process of making an application for Irish citizenship. He has been resident in Ireland for the past 6 years on a Stamp 4 permit. However he has a two month interval on his permit from January to March of 2012 due to an illness.

He has his GP letters and proof of ill health, can this be accepted by the Citizenship department as a tenable reason for the gap in residency or should he just wait till next year especially as he has to pay a non-refundable fee of €175.

Looking forward to helpful suggestions/advise, will be particularly glad to hear from applicants who have found themselves in a similar situation.

Is it a period of absence from the state or gap of stamp from the passport because temporary letter does not count rather than the temporary stamp on the passport if there's any temporary stamps on the passport, a take or specific answer to that effect ?

Thanks. It is a gap on the residence stamps on the passport, he has resided in Ireland legally all through the 6 years. he was just unable to go and renew his Stamp 4 at the Gardai station due to ill-health.

It does not affect once they could ascertained the 60 month required on the passport, bravo.

gnem wrote:

EUspouse82 wrote:

gnem wrote:

EUspouse82 wrote:Hi Folks,

I am inquiring on behalf of an acquaintance who is in the process of making an application for Irish citizenship. He has been resident in Ireland for the past 6 years on a Stamp 4 permit. However he has a two month interval on his permit from January to March of 2012 due to an illness.

He has his GP letters and proof of ill health, can this be accepted by the Citizenship department as a tenable reason for the gap in residency or should he just wait till next year especially as he has to pay a non-refundable fee of €175.

Looking forward to helpful suggestions/advise, will be particularly glad to hear from applicants who have found themselves in a similar situation.

Is it a period of absence from the state or gap of stamp from the passport because temporary letter does not count rather than the temporary stamp on the passport if there's any temporary stamps on the passport, a take or specific answer to that effect ?

Thanks. It is a gap on the residence stamps on the passport, he has resided in Ireland legally all through the 6 years. he was just unable to go and renew his Stamp 4 at the Gardai station due to ill-health.

It does not affect once they could ascertained the 60 month required on the passport, bravo.

Many thanks for that, he is just confused because apparently when he was filling out the residency questionnaire on the INIS website, it was deemed that he might be ineligible because there were gaps on his residence stamps.

He has the full 60 months residency on his passport as you said but he is just concerned on the requirement that there shouldn't be any gaps in the immigration stamps in year prior to application

Hey EUspouse82,

Please don't go by what the user 'GNEM' said. GNEM has provided unreliable information before.

I don't know the answer either - but there is a way that you can get confirmed answer.

Email citizenshipinfo@justice.ie and they are quite quick to respond. Recently, I got answers on two issues in 2 business days.

I am not sure if the answer you get from them is correct, but that approach will be more reliable than an assumed answer here. Unless some of the experts / sages here have had such a situation before.

Cheers