There is no marriage visa. If you have a valid permission to live here, you just need to attend an interview to get married and get your certificate. Once you are married, you can switch your permission to Stamp 4 right away. There is no waiting period. The time required to process the application i...
Different courses have different entry score requirements and usually have a different number of international students, and colleges will have to report to the immigration authority in terms of the number of international students in each course. Therefore, it is much more complex than a simple ‘sw...
Great news that your documents have arrived. I have always tried to avoid using three where possible. UPS for example isn’t a lot more expensive for my usual routes between Ireland and the UK. I do understand that in certain cases (like the passport application) UPS may not accept PO Box destination...
Whether you need to physically bring documents to an immigration office, or to use the online renewal platform, solely depends where you live. If you live in Dublin, you must use the online renewal platform.
This is an immigration forum so probably isn’t the best place to discuss this. The likes of Boards.ie and Reddit would be more suitable. Each institution sets out their own criteria, but yes most will require you to be a resident for at least 6-12 months, or even more. They usually require you to ha...
What are you banned of? Making a new naturalisation application within 5 years, or travelling to Ireland within 5 years? The ban would be very specific. If it says you are banned for making a new naturalisation application, that ban will stay regardless of your citizenship status. If the ban says yo...
Unless you have imminent travel plans, I would advise that you wait for another month. Once you go to the police station and report your documents as lost, there is no way back. Even if your documents do arrive in the end, they won’t be valid documents. As I said, I have at least 10 parcels last yea...
Yes a visa is required. Only those who have an EU country issued residence permit under EU Treaty Rights can travel without a visa. UK is not an EU country, and even if it is, he is not a resident in the UK so he wouldn’t have qualified anyway.
A month in Royal Mail is well within the normal timeframe. They are simply that bad. Never have I ever seen a postal service as slow as them. There are numerous people here who had mentioned their documents were held up by Royal Mail for over 20 days. Last year I sent around 20 parcels to the UK and...
She cannot have her stamp ‘downgraded’ without approval - once she gets a Stamp 4EUFAM, she cannot just go back and says she wants a Stamp 4 as that would be a ‘downgrade’. Such cases can only be for ‘upgrades’. (E.g. if she was on Stamp 3 and wanted to change to Stamp 4 based on having an Irish chi...
I have received the same email from cvent and I did click yes. I'd just like to know if I should book mum to come over or not?! At this stage, I don't even know if it is worth it, like if it is not an 'official' fussy ceremony, maybe there is no point in her coming over?! Mah, anyhow I will send an...
There has been the same frustration over the years, but they never make to mainstream media as naturalisation is still a tiny part of the Irish justice system. You can, of course, raise the issue with your TD and ask them for an official written response, or better, threaten INIS with legal action d...
If you have less than 21 months, you would have to apply for a new permit. There will not be an exception for that. The only exception is that a person can apply for Stamp 4 support letters when they have accumulated 20 months on CSEP, but you still need to have at least 21 or 22 months of CSEP befo...
For what it’s worth, this has been the same every year. I think COVID significantly disrupted their normal workflow, but everything is (slowly) getting back the old ways now. Before COVID, there would always be 1-3 smaller ceremonies every year and they would never be announced on INIS’s website. I ...
A March ceremony is in line with what I said earlier and in line with the department’s movement recently. INIS do not broadcast smaller scale ceremonies outside of Kerry. That’s not unusual in any way. What I am not sure is the use of that cvent.com website. They have not used such websites previous...
If you are to be treated as a tax resident in Ireland (as in you live for more than 183 days in Ireland), you must declare your income you received while you live here. Whether the payment is paid into which bank account is irrelevant. If your US company has a branch here in Ireland, they can hire y...
I didn't know you need to submit your original passport at all? The passport document page just states one form of ID (like copy of Public Service card). There is identity verification form which needs to be completed and signed by Garda. Why should they ask for original passport in this case? It d...
They just need one passport, and if you don’t want to submit the original one, you can submit a certified copy. If you have two valid passports, I’d suggest that you submit one of the original passport. After all it costs extra money to get it certified and there is always a chance they would come b...
A certified copy of passport will usually do. Remember that if you apply from abroad, your passport needs to certified by a solicitor or whoever has the legal power to certify your document. If you already sent the application with the certified copy, and they now come back to ask you to submit the ...
I’ll go back to my Czechoslovakia example. If a person who was born in Czechoslovakia and had Czechoslovakia citizenship at the time when the country split, that person is entitled to either Czech or Slovak (or in some cases, both) citizenship. Whether that person lives somewhere else is irrelevant....
The applicant must have valid permission to remain in the state at all times until the day of citizenship ceremony. When the current residence permit expires and the application is still in progress, the applicant is required to submit proofs of new permit. The application will be put on hold in cas...
If your country split apart or no longer exist, you became stateless. That is not entirely correct. For example after Czechoslovakian split into two countries, both governments started issuing passports to those who originally hold the old Czechoslovak passport, which extends to those whose parents...
Do they actually call your Witness as stated on the Passport Identity Verification Form?...."Your application will not be processed until we speak with your witness by telephone"
