Slap a two year residency requirement on it if it is for a grandparent-based application, job done.
Remove grandparents for eligibility, parents only.
How many of these are from Northern Ireland (where according to an Indo poll, 2 to 1 don’t want reunification)?
Irishman in England here. Got a first time Irish passport for our child this year (we’re both Irish). Applied in early May. Passport arrived in October. 5 month wait time start to finish.
I’ll probably be joining that queue next year after 7 years residency….
I got mine in 2018, (mum was Irish) moved to Spain with the fella (also Irish) in 2019. Best thing we ever did and I’m very very grateful to Ireland for my passport and giving me a way out of the shit show back home. I believe back then I had my Irish passport within a month of sending off the form and documents. Strangely they held my British passport, that I had used as photo ID, at Irish customs so that took a lot longer to nger to get back.
Tbh it’s mental that Ireland enables Brits and northern unionists escape the consequences of their lunatic Brexit. Add in the voting rights for Brits in Ireland, the money paid into the north and the ability of northerners to access EU and UK schemes and we are cutting our own throats.
Is this in Britain or just NI?
If people in Britain can do this then it’s unusual and very funny because of Brexit
Getting citizenship through grandparents is common in a lot of countries.
The current wait time of 2 years for FBRs is inexcusable at this stage and partly stems from the dubious decision to move all applications from foreign embassies and consulates back to Dublin.
They’re at it again! Haha
No leave it
You don’t understand how west of Ireland works
We need to charge a lot more for these passport applications from overseas, €2000 for example for an adult applying for their first passport. I wouldn’t apply this to Irish folk who want their young kids to get one, but some 40 year old who decides he wants one should pay handsomely for the privilege.
Residency and payment of taxes and bend the knee to MiggleDee to be considered to qualify.
Just saw this online
Italy offers citizenship to applicants whose mother or father was an Italian citizen at the time of their birth. But it doesn’t stop there. Italy has one of the world’s most liberal citizenship-by-descent programs, inviting people descended from Italian grandparents, great-grandparents, and even great-great-grandparents to prove their ancestry through government documentation. That means digging up the birth certificate of the Italian ascendant, as well as marriage and death certificates—no easy feat if you don’t speak Italian or can’t be on the ground to do your own research. (This is where hiring an attorney who specializes in Italian citizenship can be invaluable.) All told, the process can take three to five years
Asking for a friend. Are people here pissed because it’s delaying the process for others who live in Ireland or are you pissed that all those brits suddenly want an Irish passport cos of Brexit and the subsequent loss of easy travel in Europe?
They should quadruple the price
I do get a good chuckle out of some of the kneejerk reactions you see on this sub.
Got mine in under 4 weeks a few months ago (irish mum), i think the problem is specifically grandparents as it takes ages to get on the citizenship register before you can apply for passports
I ‘ve neem here 25 years. All my adult lifem i feel i have earned my citizenship but am too mean to pay for it.
Don’t let any of them in, they can go to the commonwealth if they like
Expect the national image to take a hit abroad so.
Would they ever be eligible to vote here, on like the GFA for example?
Could this be MI5 building up a cache of dummy accounts?
They need to open a passport office in Belfast and possibly Derry that could also serve other North Western counties that are in the Republic, also stop being so generous with handing out citizenship, there are literally people with Irish Citizenship through descent from a grandparent or great grandparent that have never even stepped foot in this country, make it so that they have to have lived here for at least a year
Come in yee black n Tans.
It’s not all Brexit escapees! I’m a Dub, live in Manchester and both my kids were born in London. They have both Irish and British passports, but their Irish ones are up for renewal in the new year…
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Slap a two year residency requirement on it if it is for a grandparent-based application, job done.
Remove grandparents for eligibility, parents only.
How many of these are from Northern Ireland (where according to an Indo poll, 2 to 1 don’t want reunification)?
Irishman in England here. Got a first time Irish passport for our child this year (we’re both Irish). Applied in early May. Passport arrived in October. 5 month wait time start to finish.
I’ll probably be joining that queue next year after 7 years residency….
I got mine in 2018, (mum was Irish) moved to Spain with the fella (also Irish) in 2019. Best thing we ever did and I’m very very grateful to Ireland for my passport and giving me a way out of the shit show back home. I believe back then I had my Irish passport within a month of sending off the form and documents. Strangely they held my British passport, that I had used as photo ID, at Irish customs so that took a lot longer to nger to get back.
Tbh it’s mental that Ireland enables Brits and northern unionists escape the consequences of their lunatic Brexit. Add in the voting rights for Brits in Ireland, the money paid into the north and the ability of northerners to access EU and UK schemes and we are cutting our own throats.
Is this in Britain or just NI?
If people in Britain can do this then it’s unusual and very funny because of Brexit
Getting citizenship through grandparents is common in a lot of countries.
The current wait time of 2 years for FBRs is inexcusable at this stage and partly stems from the dubious decision to move all applications from foreign embassies and consulates back to Dublin.
They’re at it again! Haha
No leave it
You don’t understand how west of Ireland works
We need to charge a lot more for these passport applications from overseas, €2000 for example for an adult applying for their first passport. I wouldn’t apply this to Irish folk who want their young kids to get one, but some 40 year old who decides he wants one should pay handsomely for the privilege.
Residency and payment of taxes and bend the knee to MiggleDee to be considered to qualify.
Just saw this online
Italy offers citizenship to applicants whose mother or father was an Italian citizen at the time of their birth. But it doesn’t stop there. Italy has one of the world’s most liberal citizenship-by-descent programs, inviting people descended from Italian grandparents, great-grandparents, and even great-great-grandparents to prove their ancestry through government documentation. That means digging up the birth certificate of the Italian ascendant, as well as marriage and death certificates—no easy feat if you don’t speak Italian or can’t be on the ground to do your own research. (This is where hiring an attorney who specializes in Italian citizenship can be invaluable.) All told, the process can take three to five years
Asking for a friend. Are people here pissed because it’s delaying the process for others who live in Ireland or are you pissed that all those brits suddenly want an Irish passport cos of Brexit and the subsequent loss of easy travel in Europe?
They should quadruple the price
I do get a good chuckle out of some of the kneejerk reactions you see on this sub.
Got mine in under 4 weeks a few months ago (irish mum), i think the problem is specifically grandparents as it takes ages to get on the citizenship register before you can apply for passports
I ‘ve neem here 25 years. All my adult lifem i feel i have earned my citizenship but am too mean to pay for it.
Don’t let any of them in, they can go to the commonwealth if they like
Expect the national image to take a hit abroad so.
Would they ever be eligible to vote here, on like the GFA for example?
Could this be MI5 building up a cache of dummy accounts?
They need to open a passport office in Belfast and possibly Derry that could also serve other North Western counties that are in the Republic, also stop being so generous with handing out citizenship, there are literally people with Irish Citizenship through descent from a grandparent or great grandparent that have never even stepped foot in this country, make it so that they have to have lived here for at least a year
Come in yee black n Tans.
It’s not all Brexit escapees! I’m a Dub, live in Manchester and both my kids were born in London. They have both Irish and British passports, but their Irish ones are up for renewal in the new year…
Ask them to spell they’re name as gaeilge.