I'm living in an actual nightmare. It took almost 29 months for my FBR certificate to arrive after application. Now Royal Mail have LOST my passport application, which contained my birth certificate and my FBR!! Does anyone know how much it will cost to get a replacement and how long I'll have to wa...

I've just received my confirmation of being accepted onto the FBR and have now applied for my passport. On the required documents list, for those applying through basis of FBR citizenship it states "Original passport from country of birth (if you have one)". Does anyone know certain if a ...

I’m tired of being a long time lurker and am starting to worry. I’m seeing more and more people get approved while I sit here in radio silence. My dates are as follows. Online application sent 13/10/20 Confirmation of documents 18/12/20 (coincidentally my birthday) Address confirmation email 16/11/...

Final update Online application - 2 September 2020 Doc received confirmation email - 16 September 2020 Address confirmation - 4 November 2022 Congratulations email - 15 December 2022 Documents received - 31 January 2023 Interestingly my date of registry is 19th November 2022. The person dealing with...

A rather delayed update!! I’m finally Irish!!! Online application - 2 September 2020 Doc received confirmation email - 16 September 2020 Address confirmation - 4 November 2022 Congratulations email - 15 December 2022 Documents received - Pending So just one day shy of 2 years 3 months (27 months) fr...

The DFA has nothing to do with it so should have no need to remove resources from their processes whilst the ceremonies are taking place. Partly fair, but passport apps still fall under DFA. True but the number of people receiving citizenship through naturalisation isn’t comparable to the fbr backl...

I consider complaining because the person who deals with our application is inept at best or simply throwing every spanner in the works. Recently, she asked for address confirmation again, having been provided one less than 3 weeks ago. Not a word on actually processing an application, which is a b...

It's been ceremony time, which would mean more people work on ceremony plus vastly increased number of passports, imo. I don’t see any reason for that to have any effect on FBR processing seeing as naturalisation is dealt with by the Immigration Service/ Justice Minister. The DFA has nothing to do ...

So a slight update on my joint application with my brother. He has been approved and I’m yet to hear anything about mine. I’m miffed as to how this is possible seeing as they would surely have been processing both application concurrently. He didn’t tell me what date he got the approval on so I’m n...

So a slight update on my joint application with my brother. He has been approved and I’m yet to hear anything about mine. I’m miffed as to how this is possible seeing as they would surely have been processing both application concurrently. He didn’t tell me what date he got the approval on so I’m no...

Online App: Sep 1 2020 Docs Rec: Sep 15 2020 Address Check: Nov 1 2022 Confirmation: TBD I was so hopeful with the short, handful of day, flows others have experienced, now I am hoping for a gift email from Santa. Any insights folks have? different teams, something wrong, some external group being ...

Oh no! I tried to open the spreadsheet today and it says: Sorry, the file you have requested has been deleted. Make sure that you have the correct URL and the owner of the file hasn't deleted it. Is anyone else getting this? It told me that I don’t have permission to view it. Seems that general acc...

According to the almighty spreadsheet , yours is a joint application with edinburghlass . Correct? My guess is that they're going to complete verifying the docs for both of you before sending any congrats emails. Yes, address check to congrats is often 1-2 weeks, but 3, 4, 5 weeks is not unheard of...

I received my confirmation of address email on 4th November after my docs were received on 16th September 2022. Yesterday marked 3 weeks since the email. Unfortunately I’m still waiting for the congratulations email. Somehow these last three weeks have been an even more painful wait than the 26 mont...

Getting nervous that I missed something, since my documents were received Oct 15, 2020, and seeing December. I know others feel the same way who are probably still waiting from before my dates. It makes me worry that I missed something or they lost it. I’ve checked my junk and deleted messages but ...

Update!! Application submitted online: 2nd September 2020 Email acknowledging receipt of documentation: 16th September 2020 Confirmation of address email: 4th November 2022 Congrats email: Pending I also received the email stating that this is no guarantee of a successful application: "I am cur...

As business hours have well and truly finished, it’s another week for me with no word on my application. Whilst I’m extremely happy to see that more and more people are starting to see movement on theirs, I can’t help but start getting a bit impatient to receive my address check email, especially as...

Evening all, Long time lurker here. Thank you all for keeping me sane.... whoever started 'The Spreadsheet' deserves a medal! Application date: 01/09/2020 Documents received: 28/9/2020 Address check: 21/10/2022 Congrats email: FBR cert received: I know I've left a certificate out (pandemic brain!) ...

Dani12345 wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 21, 2022 12:40 pm

Documents Received: 23/09/2020
Confirmation of Address: 20/10/2022

Looks like the team processing your application is working quicker than the team processing mine. Fingers crossed I hear back soon. Maybe in the next week or so

Online Application: 21 Aug 2020 Docs Received: 01 Sep 2020 Address Check: 20 Oct 2022 Congrats email: Cert Received: They're now into applications received in September 2020! This is very exciting. I audibly gasped when I opened my email this morning and saw the address check waiting for me. That’s...

Hi all, Received my address confirmation today! I've moved since my application, so had to provide a proof of new address. Application Submitted Online: 22nd June 2020 Documents Received: 14th July 2020 (Didn't receive confirmation so found out from web chat) Confirmation of Address: 11th Oct 2022 ...

mwalsh5757 wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 10, 2022 3:13 pm

WooHoo!

Online Application: April 4, 2020
Docs Received: July 3, 2020
Address Confirmation: October 10, 2022

Congrats!!

Very motivating to see a July application. Fingers crossed the rest of us 2020 applicants hear back soon now.

So, just jumped in here after a while and WOW. Previous page is full of March applications and the page afterwards is full of May, June and July scattered all over the place? So its true then, not many people seem to have sent their applications in during the COVID lockdown, which iirc, lasted unti...

I my friends, am a very happy camper and hope that this news brings other happiness as well!! Online Application: 28 March 2020 Documents Received: 26 May 2020 Address Check: 4 October 2022 i’ve been separated from living legally with my partner for 2.5 years whilst waiting for this citizenship. we...

Amazing, in the last few weeks they must have updated their estimates. They now claim 12-18 months. Very recently their page also said folks should expect more than two years, it now says around 2 years. https://www.dfa.ie/citizenship/born-abroad/born-abroad-citizenship-by-descent-faqs/ Interesting...