They could also be asking for it because it has been 12 months since the first documents were sent in and they want more recent documents now so they are sure that they are still living together as a married couple. Exactly. For spouse of Irish citizens applications, despite legislation specifying ...

Now I see the reason why his application is taking soo long. His case is really complex!. How have you decided that his application is "really complex"? His attempt to enter the UK and subsequent refusal do not make this a "really complex" case. Ok, I hope you know that the possibility of the long ...

Please take the lead from this poster and note this announcement If you want to ask questions about how to make an application or anything else, first search the forum and if you cannot find an answer make a new thread. Is there any reason why these dates are being tracked in a thread? It gets ridi...

Sorry you are taking it off. You site was of great help to me as. Thank you! Hi CitationCj2 - Glad to hear it was of help to you. I know it was great for us when we were going through the 3 year waiting period! I think I'll leave the document there, but I won't bother curating mistakes anymore. The...

OK I'll take that as a no, it's not needed any more.

Good luck to those of you still waiting.

Hi folks, As some of you may remember, I set-up the Citizenship Application Tracker a few years ago when citizenship applications were taking years to process. From what I can see, the timelines have now sped up, and I'm not sure of the value any more. Also, people don't seem to be updating their de...

Regarding travel to Schengen countries - If a newly naturalised Irish citizen wishes to travel to an EU country and doesn't yet have an Irish passport, can they legally travel using the Irish Certificate of Citizenship, or do they need to apply for a Schengen Visa on their non-EU passport? According...

my wife's (EU citizen) application for naturalization was approved last week. They asked her for GINB card. secondly, we are passing through hard financial time,in case we couldnt afford to pay the 950 euro, can she ask to postpone her ceremony into the near future. First things first, your wife ha...

Sweet Lord, read your posts, the only rude and aggressive poster was you ' it started with you completely misunderstanding a comment made by another. Everyone else responded to you in kind with rudeness. If you sincerely believe that, I'd suggest you re-read the comments posted. If your the caliber...

Thanks for the unhelpful and mostly rude or offensive comments by Dee1, Walrusgrumble and IrishEddy. Seriously, they were a joy to read. Just because citizenship has been granted, doesn't mean that you have to turn into a slavering idiot and drop all else ignoring the consequences. To close out on t...

There is an old expression :Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. How many of the 50,000 undocumented migrants would like to have your problem? Well nobody else except you seems to consider it a problem. Go ahead and say you have a prior arrangement. The mere fact that you have to ask shows that it...

Hi folks, Hubbie just received his invitation to the ceremony on April 1st. We have a holiday booked for those dates so are wondering about whether he can refuse this date for a future date, or whether we should cancel our plans to attend this ceremony. The invitation letter says the following: Atte...

Hubbie just got same letter today with ceremony date for 1st of April. Yawwh finally! He was approved in October 2011 and submitted his fee in Jan 2012.

IQU wrote:next citizenship ceremony is in april 2012.around 1000 people taking the oath.........................is anyone else got his/her approval today ?

IQU: Where did you get this info from? Has a date of April been sent out to anyone yet?

IQU wrote:www.inis.gov.ie 2,3 feb for next ceremony is oficely announced

I mean dates after the Feb dates. The last invites for that ceremony were sent out weeks ago but still no info on when the next one will be held.

If anybody who has send his draft on in Jan 2012 can update forum when they hear about their ceremony it would be great ( as soon as I hear from them I will update the post) Nope, hubbie sent in his 950 at the start of Jan and also advised of a change of address. Just got acknowledgement of the cha...

Application for Without Condition endorsement is not made to the GNIB, it is made to INIS. I applied for same for my son, who was born in Ireland to a British citizen father and a Singapore citizen mother. I wrote a letter to INIS and enclosed my son's Singapore passport, his birth certificate and ...

Again folks, has anyone received an invite or heard about any dates after the early Feb ones in Dublin?

"Without Condition" is Stamp 6, however no GNIB card endorsed with same will be issued, since Irish nationals are not registered by the GNIB. Only Irish citizens or persons who are entitled to be Irish citizens are eligible for the Without Condition endorsement. Thanks Ben. Yeah from what I read, a...

Hey Folks, Has anyone actually received this stamp? My husband has been granted citizenship on the basis of marriage to an Irish citizen (3 years residence). Can he apply for this "Without Condition" Stamp? Do the folks at the GNIB office in Dublin even know what this is? Also, is this "Without Cond...

Has anyone received any details about any dates post the Feb 3rd/4th dates? Given that the closing date for responses has already past, I'd imagine new dates would be scheduled..

Agreed. I also don't see how difficult it is to schedule 6-12 ceremonies per year ahead of time and let applicants decide which date suits them best. Surely it's a waste of everyones time having INIS ringing applicants and applicants ringinig INIS. How difficult would it be to have a web form applic...

Hi guys, I'd like to run a thread to keep a log of when the upcoming citizenship ceremonies will be held. I'll keep updating this first post with an updates from further down the thread about upcoming dates. As usual it's just ridiculous that we have to track here what the dates are instead of this ...

WOO HOO!!! Just came back from holiday to find that a brown envelope with a harp was waiting for me. Firstly I thought it was just notification of my new case number, however, I saw that it was an approval!!! I've never been so happy to receive a request for 950 in my life. Applied February 2011 on...

CONGRATULATIONS! to you and your Hubbie, that is really long time for an application as a Spouse of an Irish Citizen. But at the end wait is over. GOOD LUCK :D Cheers Pikka! Such a relief that it's all over now. It's been a battle since we first moved back to Ireland in 2005 and to finally have our...