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Do you think currently we are in a better position to apply for say Irish, French or Spanish citizenship so we can retain an EU passport. Can we do this now or in the next 2 years. Are we in a better position as being part of the EU than after the 2 years.
Think you have to be resident for 7 years in Ireland before you can apply for a passport.
Good luck with getting a French passport in less than 11 years unless you are favourite for an Olympic gold or you are a muslim and save a shop full of jews from certain death by leading them to safety in an ISIS terrorist attack.
You have to be resident in Spain for 10 years before you're eligible for a passport.
Yeah, see yeah
Dont let the ferry doors scratch your Audi on the way out !!
Funnily enough, I've been asked this a few times...no surprise given that Google had a surge in Irish Passport related searches this morning.
In summary. If you were born [b]on the island[/b] of Ireland, you can have an Irish passport.
If your parent was born on the island of Ireland and has an Irish passport, you are automatically an Irish citizen and can have an Irish passport. I will be applying for one for my son.
If one of your grandparents was born in Ireland, you can have an Irish passport.
If you cannot locate birth certs, etc, you can apply online for one - you don't even need all details, just as much as you can find. It costs €40.
If you have an Irish spouse but are not entitled by birth or descent to have an irish passport, you have to reside as a married couple for at least three years before applying for an Irish passport.
There has always been (and I very much believe always will be) a special relationship (reciprocal) between the UK and Ireland as far as travel and residency are concerned. As an Irish citizen, I travelled here to live in 1993, without a passport (had always travelled on my mum's as a child) and could immediately live and work here, vote in General Elections as if I was a UK citizen. The same applies for a UK citizen who wants to go the other way. As far as naturalization is concerned, you'd have to look up the rules, but they are all there in plain English on the Irish government website.
If one of your grandparents was born in Ireland, you can have an Irish passport.
I did not know that. I'm not sure it'll actually have any great practical advantage, but its good to know.
You never know when it might be handy to travel on an EU passport. 🙂
Run away run away. Come on stay, think of the pleasure you'll get out "I told you so" threads on here or down the pub.
I'm seeing it as a business opportunity and have ordered 17 million "I vote remain, don't blame me" car stickers. 50p a each if you want one, I suspect given the demographics many people will want at least two. 🙂
No-one is saying go and live in Ireland. Just get yourself an EU Passport. The fees more than cover the cost and Ireland won't mind people who have an entitlement to one having it. If only to avoid the queues at passport control. 🙂
So, to be clear, my wife (who's father was born in Ireland - he's dead but we have his old passport) can apply for an Irish passport today ?
We then need to work out how to support ourselves in Ireland for three years...
This is the best news I've had all day.
Mrs J's dad was Italian
Time to explore that option
One of the other advantages of the Irish passport is once you have your passport you can also apply for the ID card type eu travel only passport and keep it in your wallet in case you want to leave the country in a hurry. I use that one more than my normal passports nowadays ( I very rarely use my uk passport at all nowadays, I only really got it for work so may not even bother renewing it after today) flapjack yes our wife should be entitled straight away, there's a passport office at the embassy in London to make things easier
So, to be clear, my wife (who's father was born in Ireland - he's dead but we have his old passport) can apply for an Irish passport today ?
Yes, absolutely.
You may have to provide a birth cert though. But as I said earlier, it's pretty easy to apply once you have DOB, Place of Birth, Mother's maiden name and some other stuff.
One of the other advantages of the Irish passport is once you have your passport you can also apply for the ID card type eu travel only passport and keep it in your wallet in case you want to leave the country in a hurry.
Yep. I must get round to applying for that. You can even do it through an app on your smartphone.
Tbh what was on my passport never bothered me till this morning, think I will probably get an Irish one at some point in the future. Least if not for travel for if things do go tits up UK wise over the long term gives ye more easy options.
I'll be applying for an Irish passport through my granny (RIP). It's just a shame I didn't do it before my kids were born as they will not qualify now.
Pretty sure they will RichT. You'd have to get their births registered on the Foreign Births Register first though...after you've got yours.
Sadly I don't think so. I needed to have registered in the Foreign Births Register before their birth. Also daughter is now 18.
Oh bummer, yeah, reading through again, looks like you're right.
just looking at it, will cost £231 to get added to the foriegn births register, then you've the passport cost at 80 yoyo, plus cost of whatever documents you'll need.