My FBR certificate arrived this Saturday and I have already sent off my application for a passport. Hope this takes significantly less time to be processed. RE the forum, from what I can see there is an issue with the SSL (Security) Certificate. For me, it works on laptop, but not on mobile. It prob...

Email received this afternoon: Application for FBR approved. " A certificate has now been printed and posted to the address provided by you...". That's significantly less than the minimum of 6-8 weeks they quoted in their previous email on 29 September. Just curious, when was the date the...

Email received this afternoon: Application for FBR approved. " A certificate has now been printed and posted to the address provided by you...".

That's significantly less than the minimum of 6-8 weeks they quoted in their previous email on 29 September.

I have just seen this on the Oireachtas website. A reply to questions from Deputies to the Minister for Foreign Affairs regarding the backlog of FBR applications (dated 21 September 2021). There are over 31,000 unprocessed applications. At present and only emergency cases are being dealt with (as w...

After an eternity, I have just received my confirmation of address email. So they are definitely back on the case (or fed up with my Twitter enquiries). Timeline Online application: 5 November 2019 Confirmation of receipt of documents: 11 November 2019 Confirmation of address: 29 September 2021 ......

After an eternity, I have just received my confirmation of address email. So they are definitely back on the case (or fed up with my Twitter enquiries). Timeline Online application: 5 November 2019 Confirmation of receipt of documents: 11 November 2019 Confirmation of address: 29 September 2021 RE p...

I have just seen this on the Oireachtas website. A reply to questions from Deputies to the Minister for Foreign Affairs regarding the backlog of FBR applications (dated 21 September 2021). There are over 31,000 unprocessed applications. At present and only emergency cases are being dealt with (as w...

That's strange, they may have changed that since I used it. I submitted a request on my FBR application this way in April and absolutely got a response. I don't remember that disclaimer being there at the time, but who knows. Maybe a bunch of other people did it that way too, and they put up the di...

The contact form on the DFA website says the following:

“Please note that passport and foreign birth registration queries will not be handled using the below form.”

So, chances are if you do send a message, you won’t get a reply unless it’s an emergency.

I have just seen this on the Oireachtas website. A reply to questions from Deputies to the Minister for Foreign Affairs regarding the backlog of FBR applications (dated 21 September 2021). There are over 31,000 unprocessed applications. At present and only emergency cases are being dealt with (as we...

Application submitted online: 05 Nov 2019 Email acknowledging receipt of documentation Balbriggan: 14 November 2019 Confirmation of address email: Congrats email: FBR certificate received: I managed to contact them on 14 October 2020 via the web chat and they told me they were processing application...