Application submitted online: 6/11/22
Email acknowledging receipt of documentation Balbriggan: 21/11/22
Confirmation of address:
Date added to FBR:
Congrats email:
FBR certificate received:

Well Mrs TinFE also wants to join the diaspora now she’s seen my passport, so I’m back here

Application submitted online: 6/11/22
Email acknowledging receipt of documentation Balbriggan:
Confirmation of address phone call:
Date added to FBR:
Congrats email:
FBR certificate received:

After a loooong wait for FBR, posting this seems almost trivial but it may help someone I'm sure... Online application: 24/09/22 Application Processing : 11/10/22 Issue date: 24/10/22 Printing: 25/10/22 (book) 26/10/22 (card) Dispatching: 26/10/22 Passport received: 3/11/22 (book) 31/10/22 (card) 31...

Hi everyone,
I'm now happily FBR status and applying for an Irish passport.
Can I send my previous passport that expired this year as proof rather than my current UK passport?

Application submitted online: 03/03/2020 Email acknowledging receipt of documentation Balbriggan: 18/03/2020 Confirmation of address email: 20/09/2022 Congrats email: 22/09/2022 FBR certificate received: 27/09/22 (plus all returned certificates + dated 21/9) So that's all from me folks ... apart fro...

Application submitted online: 03/03/2020 Email acknowledging receipt of documentation Balbriggan: 18/03/2020 Confirmation of address email: 20/09/2022 Congrats email: 22/09/2022 FBR certificate received: Very happy :-) For completeness I'll post the certificate received date, and then probably revis...

Good news! Waiting on the congrats email... Application submitted online: 03/03 2020 Email acknowledging receipt of documentation Balbriggan: 18/03/2020 Confirmation of address email: 20/09/2020 Congrats email: FBR certificate received: I added this to the tracking sheet with a address check date o...

Good news! Waiting on the congrats email...

Application submitted online: 03/03 2020
Email acknowledging receipt of documentation Balbriggan: 18/03/2020
Confirmation of address email: 20/09/2020
Congrats email:
FBR certificate received:

Thank you so much for this forum. Docs received email March 5, 2020 Address confirm email September 6, 2022 I'll update the spreadsheet. Thank you everybody. congratulations - what a wait and thanks for the update. I'm 13 days behind you in the docs received, and looking forward to making my final ...

To date the amount of FBR registered people since 1956 stands at around 250,000, most of whom did not register before the next generation being born, while that maybe significant in regards to Irelands population its a tiny number to the population of the UK and USA, and would not cause a "swa...

For the March 2020 Club - unless someone disagrees, I think mid-September might (unfortunately) be a realistic possibility? Personally, I do still think they will speed up by the end of the year (Oct/Nov), particularly when the passport numbers calm down post-summer. I'll raise you August :-) - bec...

Very similar to my story, something I was always going to do; to learn, connect to my roots and Irish family. Brexit was the thing that gave me the kick/urgency - decided to do it in Nov 2019, and took me until mid Feb to be ready to send off the docs. On a side note, don't bother asking family for...

I feel like this must have been covered by someone already but why is February going so slowly? Was there a massive surge of applicants in February 2020? What are everyones theories? Combination of Brexit kicking in and pre-Covid timing. I saw a 14th Feb get processed. Someone above Dalton? Estimat...

Its getting close for us March 2020 people now too :-) Do we have a view whether we can predict whether the order in which they are approving us follows the document received date or application submitted ? I sent my documents off double quick, so, yes, this question is frivolous & just shows ho...

Congratulations Martin - us March people can't be far behind!

excellent news - congratulations. Roll on March 2020

Update - 04/11/2019 - Online application submitted 02/12/2019 - Documents received 03/02/2022 - Confirmation of address 15/02/2022 - Congratulations email And another update - 21/02/2022 - got my FBR Certificate in the post today!! Will update the spreadsheet shortly. Now onto the passport! Congrat...

while my application slowly makes its way through, my brother wants to FBR now too. I see mention of joint applications/siblings here. Does anyone know if it possible for a sibling to an application in now, link to mine and then perhaps just send in their birth certificate? I doubt it as your appli...

while my application slowly makes its way through, my brother wants to FBR now too.

I see mention of joint applications/siblings here.

Does anyone know if it possible for a sibling to an application in now, link to mine and then perhaps just send in their birth certificate?

while my application slowly makes its way through, my brother wants to FBR now too.

I see mention of joint applications/siblings here.

Does anyone know if it possible for a sibling to an application in now, link to mine and then perhaps just send in their birth certificate?

while my application slowly makes its way through, my brother wants to FBR now too.

I see mention of joint applications/siblings here.

Does anyone know if it possible for a sibling to an application in now, link to mine and then perhaps just send in their birth certificate?

This might be the optimist in me speaking, however, I can't help but think the 2 year wait is an over exaggeration. I'm now thinking that those applying now would be a lot faster than 2 years (providing the Omicron COVID variant doesn't mess things up)...? Anyone else share a similar view? I see th...

PeteK wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 04, 2021 12:46 pm

That's me done! My FBR certificate arrived this morning:

Congratulations! that's ~690 days, be interesting to see if the times speed up from now on....

Hello Folks, long-time lurker here! I submitted my documents on 17/03/2020 and other than tracking my package online which confirms it was delivered, I have heard nothing since. This was no bother due to the "situation" but now I am seeing people after me having receipts of their email. I...

I have found this forum useful as many other appear to over the past year or so in working out what the current status is with regards to FBR timelines. Previously a forum member collated all the available timelines periodically and posted them in a succinct manner. Below is my attempt at this, alt...