You wear whatever you want to wear. There is no dress code. It’s summer. It can be very warm, and it can be raining a lot in west Ireland.

Some people wear formal and come prepared (learn the Irish anthem if you wish!). Others just come with t-shirts and flip-flops.

Sounds like your residence is based on marriage with a Dutch national. You will need a visa if that’s the case.

You said it says ‘Article 10 of Directive 2004/38/EC’ on the back of your card?

2-3 hours.
No. Everyone stays in their own seat.

You can email them with a valid reason and proof, although it is questionable whether a non-refundable holiday is considered one of them. If they accept your request, they will tell you alternative options. Usually it means you will be placed on to the next scheduled ceremony, which is a few months ...

Apologies I didn’t read the entire thread in detail. Thought you were doing IRP renewal or filling in the initial naturalisation application, which you don’t need a Person ID.
Yes for Garda vetting you need a Person ID. Glad they were able to respond promptly.

If you don’t have it, just leave it blank or put n/a in it. It’s not a mandatory field and people who have never needed to interact with INIS by post will not have one.

You can’t apply for Irish passports directly. You need to apply for a naturalisation certificate. Approved asylum seekers need 3 years of residence, backtracked from the day of arrival into Ireland. Your wife can apply right now. You should go through the standard 5 year route from the date when you...

You can apply now.

The day you entered Ireland.
If you want to use RTB record as part of your 150 points for each of the five years, you should provide five years of proofs.

Yes my partner usually just gets a 5-year Schengen visa while her IRP is valid for less time.

Hi Hope you are doing well. Just a question, the website of most Schengen country says, GNIB has to be valid 3 months after retuen date to Ireland….. may I ask you if you card is going to expire soon how come you have a valid Schengen visa for your trip now? We are planning now in the coming weeks ...

There is no such thing as changing category. You can simply withdraw the current application and start a new one.

There won’t be any issue whatsoever, but if you can show that you have made a renewal application, it may make it easier for you to pass through the border.

You don’t need to submit copies of the permit. They are issued by DETE so they have access to them anyway when they process your support letter request.

Solicitors should not fill in W2. In fact as things stand at the moment, no one should fill in W2. Where in the instructions did you see that solicitors need to fill in that part? Application form page 13: "You should complete boxes A1, A2 and A3 and your authorised witness should complete W1,...

Solicitors should not fill in W2. In fact as things stand at the moment, no one should fill in W2. Where in the instructions did you see that solicitors need to fill in that part?

To get a Stamp 4 support letter, you need to have been on Stamp 1 for 21 months AND having worked under Stamp 1 for 21 months. So the period you were made redundant needs to be excluded.

What type of employment permit do you have with your new employer? Or are you using your old permit while working for your new employer? Have you received a permission to continue working using your old permit? INIS do allow people whose companies are acquired by a different company to continue work...

You don’t need to inform INIS but it would be good to. Just send EU treaty department an email explaining the situation. They will mark the record in their file and it will help your wife when she passes through the border in future.

I think I used to reply to everyone that asks about the estimated date - it almost always goes past the estimated date. One or two weeks are a norm. Don’t worry about it.

Well you can’t say your sponsor will just come to Ireland without any job or money, right? That would suggest to the visa officer that you may have to rely on social benefits, which will raise a red flag in your visa application. The requirement is that the sponsor needs to earn 40K euro in the last...

What advice do you want to obtain? What online can you not find? If you are referring to long-stay visas, surely your case is one of the most common scenarios and there should be advice everywhere, or are you looking for something else?

Thanks for the reply. Were you able to go to your bank and ask for statements back as far as five years? All banks are legally required to hold your data for at least 7 years. You are free to request for any data that the bank holds against you. They may charge you a reasonable amount of money for ...

I remembered that I got 3 penalty notices for 3 different journeys in different dates from eFlow that I did pass on M50 motorway and didn't pay the toll fees,each of which was paid the next day . would these considered offences according to citizenship application question 11.1 Have you ever commit...

samach is right. You should inform them that you should have said yes to question 11.1. A brief letter of remorse also helps. We barely see anyone getting rejected due to a traffic offence (other than those serious ones like excessive speeding and DUI). You can reach out to them once you get an appl...