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J-R
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Hurrah for the Irish side of my family. It’s great skipping through passport control whilst the Brits all get to queue and complain.
Are you this deeply nasty in real life – or do you save it up for a British biking forum?
Haha if laughing at people who voted for Brexit and then moan about queues at the airport makes me nasty Ill take that every day.
Annoyingly the second time you go to the US you can join the US & Canadian citizens and returning ESTAs queue where, in my experience, you get greeted like a long lost brother.
The irish people will be chuffed to bits to hear of this and your impending visit.
My Irish ancestors will be well chuffed that I no longer queue thanks as am I.
if you cant get the info from your relatives, how would you find all the details required for the irish passport?
On the usual searches in Ireland or Northern Ireland records offices, perhaps through Ancestry for ease.
We are great grandparents Irish - so I am one too far a generation. My father and brother are seriously into looking up our ancestry, and we have mapped huge family tree around Scotland, England, Wales and Ireland on all sides of the family. Fundamentally I am Scottish and Irish from my great grandparents backwards....They are now are working out living blood relatives in Canada, USA, Australia, NZ and Sweden.
None of which gets me a bloody EU passport though.
Hey hey, my Irish passport arrived today! I decided to finally pull my finger out when this thread started and get our applications in for me and kids, they need to get on the FBR first so going to take a little longer for them though I think they will benefit more than me from EU citizenship, moreover will benefit their future children too. The hardest part of process was getting documentation from my parents (my mum called me a traitor, not sure if she was kidding or not) but it turns out it’s not hard to get copies for birth and marriage certificates by post especially if you have the key details.
I still have a few questions though for those with dual UK/EU passports;
Do you enter the EU on one passport and return to UK on the other? You generally only give airline 1 passport number does this not make any difference?
My wife can’t get EU passport without 3 years residence but she has read that EU regulations generally allow for family members of EU citizens to use the same EU/EEA/Swiss passport control lane at, provided you are traveling together. Anybody have experience of this? Particularly Geneva we fly there a couple of times this year which I know isn’t EU but last time we were their the non EU queue was huge…!
Traitors!
Do you enter the EU on one passport and return to UK on the other? You generally only give airline 1 passport number does this not make any difference?
Yes, basically. You're right that you only give the airline one passport, but airline registration and Border Force queues are 2 different things, so you can have your IE passport on your flight but show your UK passport when returning through Heathrow, for example.
But if you're going to the US/ Canada/ other places, make sure you enter and exit on the same passport (and that you have your ESTA/ ETA for that passport) otherwise you can get seriously screwed.
EU regulations generally allow for family members of EU citizens to use the same EU/EEA/Swiss passport control lane at, provided you are traveling together. Anybody have experience of this?
I would say it may be the legislation, but it really depends on who's working the airport that day. If you have a small child in your family group that definitely helps; if it's just two adults you may well get told to split up to your respective queues.
And as for the Swiss, just remember: the Swiss like being arseholes to the rest of the world just because they're Swiss. Last time I went through Geneva they very obviously turned off the biometric/ automatic games for exiting passport control as we approached, and had travellers divided into Swiss passports and everyone else - and the queue was immense. They did not give a ****
Do you enter the EU on one passport and return to UK on the other?
There’s little point in keeping the british passport once you have the Irish one, unless you like having a spare. I had to have a british one for work (and that was all i used it for) but didn’t renew it decades ago.