people who got their citizenship anything new

on lighter side of this forum anything exciting happened to your lives since acquiring citizenship.in my case aside from hassle from visa travelling anywhere eh nothing

Hi nicepecsigot,

Same here, no hassle with the visas anymore.
Apart from this, nothing has happened.
I feel relieved though.

Regards,

Mendo
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Find it big relief. Not thinking of calling on tuesday and thursdays anymore. At the same time, sympathise about others, mainly 2005/2006 who are still waiting for their approval.

I have not been travelling since I got the citizenship but have been admitted to hospital instead and claiming illness benefit.

I have saved around €500 for GNIB Reg + visas for my family

yeah no visa hassle. I was traveeling to my ex-home country and had a 16-hr layover in Dubai..could go out of the airport no bother, got a visa on arrival.

I have been living in the UK for the last few months now, so yes the Irish citizenship has arrived while I were in the UK and made a difference in saving me further UK residency paperwork.

To Strongbow,

Can you tell me please for how many days visa they gave you did they charge you money when i trave in future i may trave via dubai.
thanks.

Regards.
H4B.

No money charged for visa..30-day visa is what is issued.

To Strongbow.

Great thanks buddy for my for your reply you are star.
thanks again.

Regards.
H4B.

to nehro are you not supposed to be living in eire for at least year after acquiring citizenship??coz this is the reason why im holdin on to this high collectin tax country before working somewhere.

nicepecsigot wrote:to nehro are you not supposed to be living in eire for at least year after acquiring citizenship??coz this is the reason why im holdin on to this high collectin tax country before working somewhere.

I have not heard of this before. The only requirement as far as I know is not to live more than 7 continous years out of the country. However, even this is in breach of my rights as an EU citizen who should be free to work and live anywhere in the EU for any period of time.

Folks, I have checked up on this. The only requirement is that if you move out of the country you need to file a declaration of intention to retain Irish citizenship at the Irish embassy of the country you are moving to. You need to do this every year. If you don't do this AND you live outside Ireland for more than 7 years there is a provision in the Statute book that your citizenship can be revoked.
Bottomline is you can live wherever you want as long as you file this declaration of intention to retain Irish citizenship.

Following my naturalisation I was able to immediately receive a Stamp 4 for my spouse. On application I was also granted a Stamp 4 for my daughter who had lived in Ireland for seven years but always as a Student.

This level of family unification is gratifing.

strongbow wrote:Folks, I have checked up on this. The only requirement is that if you move out of the country you need to file a declaration of intention to retain Irish citizenship at the Irish embassy of the country you are moving to. You need to do this every year. If you don't do this AND you live outside Ireland for more than 7 years there is a provision in the Statute book that your citizenship can be revoked.
Bottomline is you can live wherever you want as long as you file this declaration of intention to retain Irish citizenship.

Imagine if your irish citizenship was revoked, you will become stateless, would you? Of course you cannot revert back to your original citizen because you lost it automatically when you acquired irsih citizen for country that did not recognize multi citizensip.
I am trying to imagine what would you do being a stateless individual.

no more visa problem when i get the passport

strongbow wrote:Folks, I have checked up on this. The only requirement is that if you move out of the country you need to file a declaration of intention to retain Irish citizenship at the Irish embassy of the country you are moving to. You need to do this every year. If you don't do this AND you live outside Ireland for more than 7 years there is a provision in the Statute book that your citizenship can be revoked.
Bottomline is you can live wherever you want as long as you file this declaration of intention to retain Irish citizenship.

One of my friend who is turkish told me that his friend's Irish Passport was taken by Irish Embassy because he was living abroad for too long ( I don't know how long) but I guess he might not be aware of the rule u r talking about. Any way, its good to know this kind of rule.

That cannot be true...Find out why ? I take it hard to believe
There's noway for the Government to know if you are outside long or not...it is just impossible.

alpha_1 wrote:

strongbow wrote:Folks, I have checked up on this. The only requirement is that if you move out of the country you need to file a declaration of intention to retain Irish citizenship at the Irish embassy of the country you are moving to. You need to do this every year. If you don't do this AND you live outside Ireland for more than 7 years there is a provision in the Statute book that your citizenship can be revoked.
Bottomline is you can live wherever you want as long as you file this declaration of intention to retain Irish citizenship.

One of my friend who is turkish told me that his friend's Irish Passport was taken by Irish Embassy because he was living abroad for too long ( I don't know how long) but I guess he might not be aware of the rule u r talking about. Any way, its good to know this kind of rule.

They can easily cross-check at the time of passport renewal. All they need to do is check the Revenue records for that person in Ireland.

strongbow wrote:They can easily cross-check at the time of passport renewal. All they need to do is check the Revenue records for that person in Ireland.

What do yo mean esily. Nothing with the government is easy. INIS take months to get feeback from outside agencies, so I doubt the passport office has instant access to Revenue records.

okay maybe not instantly, but they can if they want to!

If I gained my Irish citizenship through naturalisation by desent.( My mother is Irish) would that mean I would be excluded from having to let the authorities know that I want to retain my citizenship if I moved abroad?

I find it hard to believe they took his passport because in Ireland they don't have chip system on passport (won't know how long the person was out of country ) unless someone told the INIS department about him and plus another thing the immigration take months for feedbacks.

realgunner wrote:I find it hard to believe they took his passport because in Ireland they don't have chip system on passport (won't know how long the person was out of country ) unless someone told the INIS department about him and plus another thing the immigration take months for feedbacks.

Well lets say one is working in France. Then he will have some status in france. Even though irish citizens does not require to enter into france but if u want to work u need approval (which can be obtained very easily) now lets say his/her passport is going to expire and he/she applies in Irish Embassy Paris or so. Do you think they wouldn't know that what the heck one is doing in france for the last 10 years or so?

strongbow wrote:No money charged for visa..30-day visa is what is issued.

Is that the only reason you lot apply for Irish citizenship? To save a few quid on visas?

Mean while, the scum in the dail ignore our diaspora. People who consider themselves Irish.

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