For those posting FROM the UK. I had an odd issue with posting documents from the UK to Ireland for my Passport after FBR - it seems that Royal Mail (RM) give out wrong information, and do not flag documents as needing a customs declaration (a CN22) - this can cause Irish customs to reject the ...
I am the grandson of an Irish-born grandfather. My grandfather was born with the surname “Rafter,” to a mother whose maiden name was “Foote.” She married my great-grandfather, also a “Rafter.” I have supporting birth and marriage certificates as evidence of these details. When my grandfather was a c ...
Hello all, I apologise in advance for asking a question that I'm certain has been asked 100 times already, but I didn't feel like reading through the previous 311 pages on this thread!! So here's my question. How can I check to see if a now deceased relative had been placed on the FBR at the time ...
My situation was quite complicated, but may help others. My paternal grandmother was born in Dublin in 1902; I made an application for her original birth certificate to the HSE on 02/07/23 only to have the fee refunded with no explanation. I'm sure it doesn't feel like it right now, but that's a ...
Further advice from one of the experts around here @jgclancy There is some especially good advice for US Applicants, but much of the advice will help everyone Copied from the main FBR Tread with their permission :D :arrow: I have directly helped about 50 people with their paperwork for applying to ...
I have directly helped about 50 people with their paperwork for applying to get on the Irish Foreign Birth Registration through descent from grandparents. Many others with advice online. My advice always tells people that "More is Better" and notarize everything they can. Why? It keeps them from ...
Hi Duffy, Super helpful thank you so much. Can I ask what might be a daft question? Do we need any documents for our parent. I am applying for foreign birth through my grandmother she is Irish. I have pretty much all the documents nearly. My question is take it we do not need documents for our ...
Hi Folks, I noticed over the years that the same questions tend to come up fairly often in the main FBR Thread - due to the nature of the chat, tips often get lost, so I thought this was a good place to share - please feel free to add your own Q&A/Tips - but avoid dates as the other thread does that ...
However, it seems to leave the situation that our children, who are all under 5, wouldn't be entitled as we had not registered as a foreign births before they were born. That to me seems a little strange, if both your parents are eligible but the children aren't. I understand there must be a cut ...
Thanks for your help! Can I just ask where the passport instructions clearly state that a copy of passport is okay? I managed to dig out this from the final passport application paperwork - it's contradictory in places, however I took the below as being ' true' and it worked for me When you apply ...
Thank for you the timely responses, gentleman. Both are much appreciated. Aside from those two discrepancies, I feel my path to citizenship is rather straightforward. Do you think the DFA will ask for clarification and if so, what would you do, if you were in my position? I would wait and see ...
Hello to everyone, I'm just starting my FBR process and collecting documents. On the Irish government website the instructions on the photograph requirement is a bit lacking. I see most people in this thread have already begun the process so I'm posting to ask specifics about the photographs. First ...
I'm in a similar position of not being able to provide my grandparent's photo ID. My maternal grandfather is still alive but completely uncontactable; my grandparents divorced when my mother was a teenager, and that was the last time she ever saw him - I've never met him. I emailed the Irish ...
I had a question I hadn’t thought of until now. When I land in a country with my Irish passport does that country only see my Irish details so it will look like it’s my first flight? We had very similar timelines in the end - Congratulations! Who knows on your second point - I don't think it's bey ...
Final post :D I have completed my FBR journey today - passport card and book received - 31m and 15d (2y 7m 15d) after applying for FBR Hopefully this helps anyone still waiting for FBR, to get some idea of when it will be over - times clearly are going down rather than up - so hopefully 31m is a ...
Applied Online: 15.8.2022 Docs Posted: 15.8.2022 Docs Delivered in Ireland: 26.8.2022 (includes 10/11 day delay for docs to leave UK) Status changed to processing (verifying documents): 25.8.2022 Status changed to processing (Your application is being processed): 2.9.2022 Witness Contacted: 22.9 ...
I remember some early mid 2019 folks being part of a group of applications that were lost somehow. A few folks posted on here about it, being asked to resubmit documents. I'm wondering if this is related to that because they started on Sept/Oct 2019 when they first reopened in Nov of 2021.Closing ...
I wonder if anyone has advice - I am I believe entitled to Irish Citizenship through my Irish born Grandfather. However my father ( his son) died in 1983 and his death certificate ( British citizen died in South Africa) was lost long ago and the South African authorities have no records ( 1983 ...
Passport in the post to me 1 month, 1 week and 4 days post application, with a 10 day hold up in the UK. Not too shabby at all after a 29 month wait for citizenship! Passport Received today - didn't know this, but once the Passport & Card have been dispatched the tracker shows tracking info for ...
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. Had the same issue ...
Couple of interesting points from my application that may help others... Once posted in GB - it took over a week (10 days) to leave the UK - this must be a Brexit issue as it was nowhere near this long before - I have seen others say the same on here and the FBR chat. I also had to submit a customs ...
Could anyone who already has their passport or applied please give their dates? I'm curious if the 20 Business days turnaround is actually to be believed, because after the FBR turnaround time it without a doubt seems too good to be true. :? This is an interesting one, mainly because no one was ...
Hi All, I have to send FBR application for my daughter. FBR form I printed says send it to Embassy of Ireland in UAE. I read somewhere all the applications now are required to be sent to Ireland directly. I am based in Qatar. Can you please clarify? any help. Thanks There was a time (and do bear in ...
