Irish Citizenship

[noncena]

Hello

HELP NEEDED!!!

Applying for Irish citizenship but I have a couple of questions -

1. I have a gap of 12 days between my two GNIB cards. The expiry of the previous year's and the new GNIB card in 2017. The gap is 9 days and was due to a lack of available appointments.

If I include the permission email from that time period (they sent an appointment email with a date) from GNIB along with the Form 8 application, will that cover the reason?

2. Another question, in 2022 the IRP card renewal was moved online. I do not have any passport stamps for my latest time here since 2021. What could I do about that? I have the IRP card but not the stamps.

3. I travelled for 45 days in 2017. If I share the details of my time away from Ireland, would that be sufficient or do I need to do something else too?


Additonal information : my recknoable residence period based on residency checker website - 1853 days today (using my stamps on passport)

Thanks in advance.

[meself2]

1) Should be fine, if you're explain it. People say they have a few days or even weeks gap and they were fine.
2) That's fine, they don't put stamps nowadays.
3) As it goes with ISD, if you were out for more than 6 weeks (42 days), you should let them know as that period as a whole (47 days in your case) won't be counted as reckonable residence. If you let them know and you lived here for 5 years + 47 days, it should be all you need. If some of this travel was for work, you can also ask your employer for a letter stating that, so that time will not be counted for 6 week rule.

[noncena]

Thanks meself2!

For the third question, do I have to wait for me to reach 1826 days + 45 days = 1871 days? Even though the travel was off by just three more days for 2017? Sadly none of it was work related. Seems a bit unfair

I will wait for another 18 days before applying for it

[meself2]

Thanks meself2!

For the third question, do I have to wait for me to reach 1826 days + 45 days = 1871 days? Even though the travel was off by just three more days for 2017? Sadly none of it was work related. Seems a bit unfair

I will wait for another 18 days before applying for it

Unfortunately, yes. See this explanation - https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/qu ... 10-01/241/

There are uncertainties in terms of the way they count absences as we don't know what year do they mean (fiscal/calendar year), but I'd say better to stay on the safe side.

[noncena]

Yes agreed! Thanks once again!