For a spouse of an NI-born (& NI resident) Irish citizenship is possible after 3 years versus UK with 5 years. So in theory 2 years quicker. In practice however this is not the case due to Irish citizenship process taking so long.

This is why you can't get an appointment....

https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2024/ ... a-brokers/

I don't know the answer to this specifically, but I would imagine it would tell you the address where to send documents when you complete the online application.

Hi Irina, My wife and I live in NI and she applied for naturalisation in Feb 2022. (They didn't start the file until Aug 2022). I posted above about the whole evetting and DAT1 process and requests above in this topic. If they do the same for you I expect they will ask you for another DAT1 at some p...

Next ceremony as in tomorrow 26th Feb? Or the one after that whenever that is?

It doesn't make any sense...I can see people in the 2022 applications timeline who both applied and paid/processed the €950 fee after us. The only logical reason I can think of to not be in this ceremony if is they are doing it by initial application date. But that is not what they are doing. I comp...

Do we give up hope at this point @helen @nisi? Still heard nothing...

what a nightmare @Helen... at least maybe it shows that we are potentially not isolated and 'lost' cases

Do you think these ceremony invitations are being sent in batches, or individually? My wife received an email stating this before Christmas: "A Citizenship Certificate Fee was processed on 21/12/2023. You will receive a letter from this office in due course regarding the final stage of your Citizens...

There could well be a build up of people who didn't get that Dec approval letter in time. We got my wife's approval letter through the door two days after the cut-off for the December ceremonies.

That's great news for everyone waiting. This caught my eye on that linked page: "At the ceremony candidates will take an oath of fidelity to the nation, receive their certificate of naturalisation and thereby become Irish citizens." Is this new wording on these next ceremony announcements? I believe...

Number 2. Your dad would have had to already be registered at the time of your birth. Go straight yourself based on grandparent.

On a side note...my wife's passport is now a few weeks out of date. The acceptance letter asks for a scan of 'current' passport. To me the passport is still valid as an Identification document (but not as a travel document). Anyone have any experience of this if it is deemed acceptable for this or n...

Finally received the approval letter today. Was posted 8th Dec, arrived Belfast 14th Dec...with a cut-off of payment 12th Dec for the next ceremonies....They had all the extra forms they wanted since mid October.

Absolute torturous process. At least we know this is nearing the end now.

Vadrar wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:40 am

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Thu Nov 30, 2023 11:14 am

Thanks! Took like 2 years from start to finish, hopefully others' experience will be less than that.

And you’ve taken likely thousands of days off other people’s wait time with your advice and help to avoid mistakes.

I would like to second Vadrar! Congrats and thanks for the advice!

Hi Razzle, 1) That seems to be the standard wording of the DAT1. As it is basically a simple criminal record check it would not be valid for example for working with children/vulnerable members of society. I think that is what the letter means as that sort of employment would require an AccessNI che...

We did hear back from them...I got excited when I saw the letter but it was just them asking me for my divorce certificate from my previous marriage. Could have asked for that when they sent the letter about the Dat1 a few weeks earlier but I am no longer surprised by the randomness of this whole pr...

Hi honda,

We had exactly the same sequence of events for my wife's application. We got a new Dat1 letter from PSNI again no problem. Emailed them with new Dat1 request form on a Thursday and had it in post by weds the next week.

So....after sending INIS an email querying eVetting invitation for NI resident in JUNE, and being told to send DAT1 in (which we did)...they have now sent us another letter (September) telling us that eVetting does not apply to NI residents and to request a DAT1 to send to them. That is a lost 3 mon...

Hi Billi, We live in Belfast (i am UK/irish citizen) and my wife is non-EU/UK..we have the same debate about this every time we see cheap flights from Dublin. And we have always ended up just booking a connecting flight via London/Manchester/Bristol etc. As per our understanding of the rules you wou...

How is the €950 fee payable? Bankers draft like the €175 application fee? Nope, just an online payment from your card. Excellent - thanks for the confirmation meself2. I suspected that was the case but not explicitly stated anywhere i could find...as my wife and I live in NI it was a hassle to pay ...

Hi, Commenting on how to get a UK birth certificate: Birth Certificates are public documents so anyone can order any birth certificate technically, although you will be asked why you want it. (I ordered my own father's birth certificate online from Plymouth Council recently.) If you know your father...

How is the €950 fee payable? Bankers draft like the €175 application fee?

Hi,

Yes sent each monthly statement, although they were mainly one pagers and some two pagers to cover the whole month.

With all the papers at the end we actually sent it in a (heavy) large ring binder.

Land and property services bill is what would be called 'rates'/ council tax/ property tax. In Northern Ireland rates are charged on the owner of the property not the resident. So on a strict reading of residence proof I would say it doesn't count . Whether that distinction is understood by INIS is ...