On the issue of you being an Irish citizen having been born in Northern Ireland, yes I am 100% sure. Your birth certificate is all you need to prove you're an Irish citizen. You just go ahead and apply for irish passport now if you like.

That is not true. Everyone born in the Island of Ireland before January 2005 is automatically an Irish citizen. You do not have to have an irish passport to prove your citizenship. ...your birth certificate is sufficient enough as that is all you would need if you did want to apply for an Irish pass...

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I would like to know if anyone that is a spouse of an EU national and is a normally a visa requiring national for the UK, if they have traveled to UK without a visa using their EU treaty rights? I know that EU treaty rules say that you can travel to other EU states without a visa so long you are tra...

Just your Irish passport/naturalisation certificate and your country of origin passport, that is all that is needed if applying in person in Dublin after having made an appointment, appointments are available on Tuesday or Thursday mornings from 10.00am until 11.30am. Applicants can arrange appointm...

The citizenship processing times are getting shorter and shorter. I know of....and have seen several posts here of late where people have had their applications processed in 3 months. Most people though it's taking the promised 6 months. The wait for ceremony date is usually 2 to 3 months...if you'r...

You actually don't need an Irish passport to change your spouse's status from stamp 3 to 4. All you need is your naturalisation certificate, passport and GNIB card of foreign spiuse, marriage certificate and proof of same address such as bank statements and you go to INIS. I did it straight after co...

I applied 21st October as spouse of Irish national ....no 2nd stage letter yet....the wait is killing me. Time is moving oh so slowly

Only Spouses of Irish nationals can obtain citizenship in 3 years... EU nationals and others its 5 years. If you as an EU national have been living in Ireland for 5 years and your wife say 1 or 2 years, you are better off applying for Irish citizenship so that when you become an Irish citizen, your ...