The second stage letter that i got have these:

‘Your application has now been initially assessed and has proceeded to the second stage of processing.’

..together with the rest of what you wrote there.

Theres no harm on sending all the documents that will prove your stay in Ireland. It will all help in the processing. Actually, the more documents you can provide, the faster they will response.

Apart from the biometric page, I copied every single stamps i have in my passports, including the going in and out of the country. I know its a lot but i think you have to.

Application based on 5+ years residency (14+ years living in Ireland) 7 August 2017 - Submission 10 August 2017 - Passports returned 25 August 2017 - First letter/Acknowledgement 29 November 2017 - Asked for more documents which i sent the day after 22 February 2018 - Asked for more documents 12 Mar...

Hi broli,
I will post it on the 2017 timeline because i applied last August of 2017 based on 5+ years residency (14 yrs in Ireland from stamp1 to stamp4)

Hi all, I’ve been reading this forum from the day i submit my application. I just want to comment that the teams who are processing the applications are not base on the status or the stages of your application because mine was handled by one person only (Team 1); from initial letter, second letter a...