A bit more info: It was just 7 days from congratulations email to receipt of the paper certificate, much quicker than the time it took for my documents to arrive in Dublin (via France, rather eccentrically). It was delivered to me by Royal Mail and I was required to sign (I'm not sure what they woul...

Update: Paper FBR certificate (complete with very cute photo of my son) arrived yesterday. We're delighted! :D I will be applying for his passport next. Thank you to the forum for your support and encouragement. I hope your all have your citizenships very soon. Total time from online application to ...

Update: Congratulations email received today. My son's certificate is in the post :D Application Date: 11/04/2022 Documents Received: 05/05/2022 Request for photos (new): 22/02/2023 Photos (new) received: 08/03/2023 Address Confirmation: 05/09/2023 Congratulations & cert posted: 14/09/2023 FBR certi...

After six months of not much happening, I have finally received the address confirmation email. Exciting! :D Application Date: 11/04/2022 Documents Received: 05/05/2022 Request for photos (new): 22/02/2023 Photos (new) received: 08/03/2023 Address Confirmation: 05/09/2023 FBR certificate Posted: Pen...

ferocious12 wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 05, 2023 6:47 am

Hi to which address you posted the photos of the infant. Thanks

It was this address, specified in the email they sent me:

Department of Foreign Affairs | FOREIGN BIRTH REGISTRATION SECTION
Foreign Births Registration Returns Section
PO Box 13003
Balbriggan
Co Dublin
Ireland

It’s great reading about all the approvals. Thanks to everyone for posting their timelines. It really helps the newbies like me. I notice most people were asked for more docs along the way. Does anyone get through without a request for more docs or are they really picky about everything? They could...

Got the congratulations email today! This will thus be my penultimate update (ultimate update will be when certificate physically in hand). As a reminder, I applied for FBR for my son when he was three months old and thus by the time they began processing his application his photos were too old (ph...

Hi, long-time watcher of this forum. I submitted my application: 09/08/22 A confirmation email of received documents: 12/08/22 I have recently been expecting a reply as they are now up to August 2022. Today I got an email saying, "Your application and supporting documentation for your application f...

Yayyyy I’m finally an Irish citizen Timeline Application sent 1 st December 2033 Application received 7th December 2022 Address confirmation 17th April 2023 Congratulations email 3rd may 2023 This is an expectant parent timeline Congratulations! I don't know what the record is, but you must be a co...

"The processing fee has not been paid on your application and this is now due." So I have gone forward with the payment. I was wondering, will this push my application to the back of the queue as it states "supporting documents received"? Thanks. It sure seems like they're using any reason to depri...

15 June 22- application made online 23 June 22 - application received email 22 March 23 - address confirmation email 26 April 23 - Congratulations email 02 May 23 - certificate received I’m so happy and this forum is so helpful. Thanks to all Congratulations! May I ask, where were you applying from?

As it looks like August 2022 applications are getting address confirmation now, wondering if anyone has been waiting longer than 9 months? My docs were received beginning of June 2022 and still have not heard anything since. Debating if I should try contacting them if it gets to a year. Yes, I rece...

Good news: I have received a request for updated photographs for my son's application. Hoping this means his application is being looked at and may be approved soon :D Application Date: 11/04/2022 Documents Received: 05/05/2022 Request for photos: 22/02/2023 Photos received: Pending Address Confirma...

This is just a to heads-up for those applying for passports from the UK. Royal Mail took two weeks to deliver the documents from England to Dublin (they sent them via France!) and packages from Dublin take "a week too ten days to clear customs" in the UK according to Royal Mail.

Almost exactly 2 years since we submitted my daughter's application we have now received her FBR certificate. Good luck to all those still waiting, I hope you receive your certificates very soon. Application submitted: 5 August 2019 Application received in Dublin: 14 August 2019* Confirmation of pos...

Congrats JaneKnits and ReturningIrish, really good to see them progressing again. And credit to the Irish government for how they are managing it all. It's an annoying wait, but I suspect the way they are controlling the virus means it is actually going to be shorter than it would be than if they t...

JaneKnits wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 04, 2020 1:29 pm

ReturningIrish,

I also thought it would be well into January or Feb 2021 before I saw anything, I guess we were close before this last lockdown!

Congratulations!

Thank you, JaneKnits, and congratulations to you too!

I had a slightly different situation. My grandmother lied about her age when she married my grandfather (she made herself nine years younger on the marriage certificate). If she manged to convince your grandad that she was almost a decade younger she must have had some great genes. Lucky you! Haha :D

Yesterday we received an email to say that my daughter's entry into the FBR will be approved shortly and asking us to confirm our postal address. I'd accepted it could be many months before we heard anything more, so I'm delighted that we're now at this stage. It's very exciting! Good luck to everyo...

After 14 months, there has now been some movement on my daughter's application for citizenship by descent. We had an email on Friday asking for new photos as the ones we sent with her application are now considered out of date. I posted the new photos this morning. Here's an updated timeline. FBR ap...

I'm afraid I don't have any updates on my daughter's application, but I just wanted to thank everyone for sharing and especially Sulla for keeping track of everything, we'd all be in the dark without your hard work. A belated "merry Christmas" to everyone who celebrated on Wednesday.

Hi everyone, I was born in England and applied to the register of foreign births September 2016, thanks to my Offaly-born grandmother. I was added to the register in February 2017. My daughter was born in June of this year and we have now applied for her name to be added to the register. My mother-i...