Seeking clarification on FBR eligibility – adopted parent before 1952

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Hi all,

I’m hoping someone might be able to help or share a similar experience.

I’m looking into whether it’s possible to register on the Foreign Births Register if your parent was adopted by an Irish citizen before 1952. I understand that Irish law didn’t formally recognise adoption until the Adoption Act 1952, and that might affect whether such adoptions are valid for citizenship purposes. Has anyone here successfully applied to the FBR in a case like this—or know someone who has? Specifically, where the Irish link is through an adoptive parent, and the adoption took place abroad and before 1952.

My Dad was adopted by an Irish citizen in 1927 in London. According to the FBR, my father would have to have been an Irish citizen at the time of my birth, but as my father was adopted before the adoption act of 1952, am I still eligible for FBR? I hope so as I've sent off my application including my father's adoption order.

Here is a post from 2018 which states that the poster who seems to be in the same context as me had his application rejected. Hopefully the court case he mentioned has changed the way in which adoption is now ruled in the context of FBR.

https://www.immigrationboards.com/viewt ... rCQ9EQsvjQ

My grandmother was born in Ireland (I have her original long-form certificate, etc.,) and my mother was born in England. My mother was adopted by my Grandparents. (Irish Grandmother, English Grandfather).

I went through the inter-country adoption process. We paid the fee and registered my mother's adoption within Ireland through the Adoption Authority of Ireland (AAI). We have the original certificate that as issued.

However, when completing my own FBR application, it was subsequently rejected and I was advised that my mother only became a citizen AFTER she was entered in the adoption register and, of course, that was after I was born so, therefore, I am not illegible to become a citizen. This does not seem right to me and is the opposite of what jimbucktoo has stated below.

I am contact with a few people who are in a similar situation. We were advised by our local consulate that there is currently a high court case underway within Dublin and there may well be a ruling soon that could overturn the decision - this provides us with hope.

if anyone has any additional information and/or supporting documentation that they could share, it would really, really be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.