Irish Passport for new born baby for non UK or EU Parents

I'm Living in Northern Ireland Since 2022 and I'm expecting baby in the next few weeks, I will apply for Irish passport for the baby once born.

My question is what are the steps that I need to follow? Should I apply directly for Passport online under category "Neither parent of my child was an Irish, British or EU citizen at the time of my child’s birth" ? Or do I need to apply for Citizenship certificate and once I got it then I can apply for the passport for my daughter? I'm on skilled worked visa in UK and my wife is on dependent visa so we are legally good.

I was trying to apply for online Irish passport as a trial and I found a message saying:

"Your child is automatically an Irish citizen if they were born on the island of Ireland before 2005 or if they were born abroad to an Irish parent who was born on the island of Ireland before 2005.
If neither of these categories apply to your child it is important that you establish Irish citizenship for your child before you apply for the Irish passport. Further information on citizenship can be found on our website.
Remember, your child is also considered a first-time applicant if their most recent passport was issued more than 15 years ago"

so based on the above it made me confused, as I don't know if I can apply directly for the passport or I need to establish Irish Citizenship first?

Thanks

S_Y wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 05, 2025 2:56 pm

I'm Living in Northern Ireland Since 2022 and I'm expecting baby in the next few weeks, I will apply for Irish passport for the baby once born.

Hopefully it was early 2022, as you need to have been legally resident on the island for at 3 of the last 4 years at the point your child is born. So March 2022-2023, March2023-2024, and March 2024-2025 would be okay, but not if you arrived in December 2022 and your child is born in October.

My question is what are the steps that I need to follow? Should I apply directly for Passport online under category "Neither parent of my child was an Irish, British or EU citizen at the time of my child’s birth" ? Or do I need to apply for Citizenship certificate and once I got it then I can apply for the passport for my daughter? I'm on skilled worked visa in UK and my wife is on dependent visa so we are legally good.

I don't think there's any certificate you can apply for, the only path that I'm aware of is just applying for a passport.

https://www.irishimmigration.ie/how-to- ... r-descent/

The only recommended path on this page is just to apply for the passport.

I was trying to apply for online Irish passport as a trial and I found a message saying:

"Your child is automatically an Irish citizen if they were born on the island of Ireland before 2005 or if they were born abroad to an Irish parent who was born on the island of Ireland before 2005.
If neither of these categories apply to your child it is important that you establish Irish citizenship for your child before you apply for the Irish passport. Further information on citizenship can be found on our website.
Remember, your child is also considered a first-time applicant if their most recent passport was issued more than 15 years ago"

so based on the above it made me confused, as I don't know if I can apply directly for the passport or I need to establish Irish Citizenship first?

Thanks

I think this just means that you should make sure your believe you have met all the conditions to entitlement for Irish citizenship for your child. https://www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/passports ... entneither details the kind of documents you'd need to supply, but seems to be listing Irish residency stamps, which would be different to the UK stamps you'd get as a Northern Irish resident.

When you finish an online application the system will list what documents you need to submit, hopefully it'll give you sensible suggestions for NI. It might be with contacting the passport office to see what they suggest you'll need as evidence that you were legally resident for the required period https://www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/passports/contact-us/

My visa got issued on August 2022 and I have arrived to UK/NI by early October 2022, so it would be less than 3 years by a few days let's say 10 to 20 days, so I hope that they will be ok with that, it might be risky, but worth trying I think.