Sulia,

My certificate arrived on the 15th of Jan just to var you know

Update regarding same witness: Contacted FBR via phone and they confirmed that the witness has to be the same person, and even with notary public certifying the passport, its still not accepted as the notary is not that same witness on the application documents. I told her about the difficulty gett...

There is some confusion here between witnesses and notaries: You can use one or multiple noataries for your proof of address and birth certificate documents. All they are doing is saying the photocopy is accurate - as long as they can legally notarise the documents then it’s fine. But you must use o...

[quote=mayorob post_id=<a href="tel:1865573">1865573</a> time=<a href="tel:1578660471">1578660471</a> user_id=212292] Happy Friday to me! Just received the email asking for my confirmation of address. For those wondering, my application was sent on 15th March straight to Dublin, and I received conf...

Happy Friday to me! Just received the email asking for my confirmation of address. For those wondering, my application was sent on 15th March straight to Dublin, and I received confirmation of receipt on 20th March. So around 10 months for me. I assume the next stage is just to await the certificat...

An update:

Certificate finally arrived today at 10am - took around 2 days from them issuing tracking code to the package arriving at my doorstep.

Now onto applying for a passport!

Good luck to everybody else

Regarding the witness I had problems getting any witness, doctor, bank manager etc who was comfatable in doing it. In the end I went on a website for finding lawyers where you can en-masse send an email to all lawyers in your area to ask them to witness your FBR form. Fortunately I was able to find ...

You can use the post office - hope that helps!

A helpful for tip anyone waiting for their certificate If you've been waiting for your certificate for a while (give it time to be printed) you can respond to the email asking for your address to request a tracking code. Thank you for the pro tip! What is a reasonable amount of time to wait before ...

A helpful for tip anyone waiting for their certificate If you've been waiting for your certificate for a while (give it time to be printed) you can respond to the email asking for your address to request a tracking code. They should hopefully then dutifully respond with one - usually when they do t...

Those still waiting for their certificate I have an update from the FBR after I enquired about how long I will have to wait: Hi James, Presently a printing backlog – printing for applications approved end November going to print now. Expect receipt of documents early Jan 2020 with Christmas postings...

They have reached March 2019.

Handed to London Embassy: 15/02/2019
Email confirming it arrived in Dublin: 15/03/2019
Email confirming address for certificate: 25/11/2019
Entered into FBR: Waiting
Certificates arrived: Waiting