Question regarding Citizenship Ceremony day (and after)...

[John Fitzgerald]

First of all, let me apologise if this question has already been asked.
I'm sure it has many times, but my brief search didn't find any examples.

Anyway, my wife has been invited to attend (and obviously become an Irish citizen) the citizenship ceremony taking place in Dublin on April 1st.
My wife has being saying since forever that she wants us to take a little holiday somewhere in the EU once she becomes an Irish citizen (the irony).
Coincidentally she has holidays from her job one month after the ceremony for a couple of weeks.
So obviously any chance of us having a holiday during that break, depends on how quickly she can get an Irish passport after the ceremony.

So basically what I'm wondering is what does she receive on the day of the ceremony?
I assume it's a certificate of some kind.
But is that the last bit of documentation she needs (i.e. there's no more having to apply to somewhere else some weeks later for some document to prove that she is now an Irish citizen)?

Basically I'm interested in knowing how soon after the day of the ceremony will she be able to apply for her Irish passport?

Finally, and just as importantly I guess... How soon should she expect to receive her passport (assuming there's no problems)?
I mean does the passport application process take much longer for a newly naturalised Irish citizen than it does for an Irish born citizen?

Thanks in advance for any advice that can be provided by the way.
It will be greatly appreciated.

[rlow68]

First of all, let me apologise if this question has already been asked.
I'm sure it has many times, but my brief search didn't find any examples.

Anyway, my wife has been invited to attend (and obviously become an Irish citizen) the citizenship ceremony taking place in Dublin on April 1st.
My wife has being saying since forever that she wants us to take a little holiday somewhere in the EU once she becomes an Irish citizen (the irony).
Coincidentally she has holidays from her job one month after the ceremony for a couple of weeks.
So obviously any chance of us having a holiday during that break, depends on how quickly she can get an Irish passport after the ceremony.

So basically what I'm wondering is what does she receive on the day of the ceremony?
I assume it's a certificate of some kind.
But is that the last bit of documentation she needs (i.e. there's no more having to apply to somewhere else some weeks later for some document to prove that she is now an Irish citizen)?

Basically I'm interested in knowing how soon after the day of the ceremony will she be able to apply for her Irish passport?

Finally, and just as importantly I guess... How soon should she expect to receive her passport (assuming there's no problems)?
I mean does the passport application process take much longer for a newly naturalised Irish citizen than it does for an Irish born citizen?

Thanks in advance for any advice that can be provided by the way.
It will be greatly appreciated.

It does not take longer for naturalised citizen than a born citizen, it takes the same period, she can get the passport faster if she send it through the Post office than going to Passport office, it will take between 10 and fifteen days to get her passport issued, she need to apply for nothing again, apart from filling the passport application, attaching her naturalisation certificate. Good luck to both of you.

[IQU]

she going to take oath 1 april .same day she will issue the cert.than she have to apply for irish passport .she have to visit her local garda station.where garda officer test the form.than she have to visit passport office in dawson street dublin 2.once she submit the application.they will easily issue her passport within 2-5 weeks.it all depend how much busy is passport office.there is definetly delay issuing the first passport because large volume of applicants.there is more details www.dfa.ie www.passport.ie .just make sure keep the naturization certificate safe and have few photocopies also.when did your wife applied for irish citizenship ? can you please share with us.good luck

[rayr7501]

First of all, let me apologise if this question has already been asked.
I'm sure it has many times, but my brief search didn't find any examples.

Anyway, my wife has been invited to attend (and obviously become an Irish citizen) the citizenship ceremony taking place in Dublin on April 1st.
My wife has being saying since forever that she wants us to take a little holiday somewhere in the EU once she becomes an Irish citizen (the irony).
Coincidentally she has holidays from her job one month after the ceremony for a couple of weeks.
So obviously any chance of us having a holiday during that break, depends on how quickly she can get an Irish passport after the ceremony.

So basically what I'm wondering is what does she receive on the day of the ceremony?
I assume it's a certificate of some kind.
But is that the last bit of documentation she needs (i.e. there's no more having to apply to somewhere else some weeks later for some document to prove that she is now an Irish citizen)?

Basically I'm interested in knowing how soon after the day of the ceremony will she be able to apply for her Irish passport?

Finally, and just as importantly I guess... How soon should she expect to receive her passport (assuming there's no problems)?
I mean does the passport application process take much longer for a newly naturalised Irish citizen than it does for an Irish born citizen?

Thanks in advance for any advice that can be provided by the way.
It will be greatly appreciated.

It does not take longer for naturalised citizen than a born citizen, it takes the same period, she can get the passport faster if she send it through the Post office than going to Passport office, it will take between 10 and fifteen days to get her passport issued, she need to apply for nothing again, apart from filling the passport application, attaching her naturalisation certificate. Good luck to both of you.

Hi,
any ideas if original naturalisation certificate has to be enclosed along with passport application form.I would also like to know if the CON is returned back to the applicant subsequenty.Thanks.

[kiwiwife1]

Hi,

I'm a recently naturalised citizen, and I got my passport 11 working days by applying through passport express. You have to send in the originals of everything, I sent in my naturalisation certificate, New Zealand passport, birth certificate, payslips and phone bills (these are required). Everything was returned with my new passport. I applied the day after the ceremony. No reason why you cannot apply on the day if the ceremony is early enough in the day.
You should have plenty of time if you apply through passport express.

[John Fitzgerald]

Thank you all for your very helpful answers.
It's much appreciated.
Here's hoping we'll be enjoying a nice little holiday in just under two months time.

As for when my wife applied...
Well first of all, my wife is Chinese and was on stamp 4 at the time of applying (don't know if either of those two things matter).
Anyway, if memory serves me correctly, she first applied sometime around October 2010. Unfortunately we had forget to include some document (or whatever) that was needed. However, we didn't learn about this until sometime around the middle of 2011 (apparently due to me never hearing a very important voicemail).

So anyway, when we found out about this we were told that the application form (or process) had changed. So she submitted a new application around the end of July 2011.

So, yes, to cut a long story short... We applied in July 2011!