Hi Everyone, Long time lurker as this forum has kept my hopes alive. Need to vent though! Applied and sent documents in June 2020 (never got confirmation of documents arrived, but I tracked them via mail). I see all these July-October approvals so I finally called the urgent number. After 28 months...
Any estimates, predictions, and wild guesses welcome! I'd be reasonably confident you would get your FBR cert in <2 years. A few months ago, I'd have told you 2.5-3 years, but it appears that the backlog is not as big as was feared. They've gotten through the Brexit bump and they are moving through...
Hi all! 👋🏻 Is it usual for there to be a big variation in the order of applications processed? I applied for Foreign Birth Registration on the 15th of March 2020, and my documents were received in Balbriggan on the 23rd of March 2020. I haven't heard anything from the authorities since... I underst...
I was curious and added a couple of new Monthly Summary pages to the spreadsheet. They're the same as the existing Monthly Summary except: in the first one, I changed the duration calculation to be from the Docs Received date to the Cert Received. It was from "Application" date, but that d...
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...
Hello, I've been reading this forum for a while. I applied for FBR for my two boys (9 and 13) in September 2020 (documents received 30/9/20). I had resigned myself to waiting until March 2023 but I've seen posts about FBR not receiving new applications over the summer of 2020. Please can anyone exp...
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/ Looking at ...
That certainly is good news. However the dfa’s continued insistence that fbr applications are processed in 2 years when it’s clear that that isn’t the case has me wondering whether they really will manage to get through all 2020 applications by the year’s end. I must be in an optimistic mood, becau...
I was told t hat all 2020 applications will be completed by this year's end. That'll be amazing if they can make that happen! We don't have any insight to their backlog, so info like this is golden . Thanks for the info, input-output . All we have for data is in the Google Spreadsheet we've crowdso...
I tracked the “2-tuple” values of the doc received and the address confirmation. Using excel’s network days, found the difference in days between the row above for each date pair ( -1 because it calculates business days or part thereof). Then averaged both sides to get what queue theory mathematici...
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...
I’d been doing some metrics of my own since we entered March. They’re averaging about 1.4 business days to get through 1 day of “docs received”. I’m guessing those only occur on weekdays too. Ultimately they need that 1.4 value to be under 1 or the queue grows. It is shrinking though. It was at 1.8...
Could we please keep this thread on the topic of FBR? There are other threads to discuss passports. For example: First Time Passport Application Timelines - 2022 https://www.immigrationboards.com/ireland/first-time-passport-application-timelines-2022-t324539.html Passport Application Discussion 2022...
Another strange thing from looking at the data in the FBR Timelines Google doc: The numbers ramp up quickly from Dec 2018/Jan 2019, then drop off a cliff. https://i.ibb.co/NyyhFQs/Screenshot-at-2022-08-20-16-41-43.png There are two each in Dec '18 and Jan '19. Then the numbers increase steadily to 2...
Does anyone know how long it usually takes between the confirmation of address email and the processed/printed cert email? I had a look at the FBR Timelines google sheet. According to the sheet, the average time is 11 days. Most are received within a month, although there are some at 2+ months. The...
Thanks for doing the update. Are there really people who received the Congrats email still waiting about 4 weeks out? Or have they not updated? I know that timeline is conditioned on how far the documents have to go, but I'm trying to get a sense. Column K shows the time from the congrats email to ...
Hi, I received the email acknowledging receipt of documents on 12 June 2019. Then today I had an email asking to provide 2 proofs of address. Is everyone asked to do that? I'm presuming it's because it's been so long since the application was put in but just wanted to check that it's standard. Cong...
Hi all. I'm (sort of) part of the April 2019 application club too. Application sent: 29 March 2019 Email confirmation of receipt of application: 9 April 2019 Follow up queries sent to me: 9 March 2020 Additional requested information received in Ireland (according to Royal Mail recorded deliver): 2...
This afternoon I made a pass through the FBR timelines Google Sheet and tried to fill in missing data where I could. I got it from 138/283 (49%) to 154/287 (54%) complete. My process went like this: Starting at the top of the spreadsheet Find an entry where the fields for Congrats email and FBR cert...
The tracking spreadsheet on Google Docs has suddenly gone private. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/127de6t5A5Q3XzKBOIVHKjnE9Mn0-Xjl3EhYBB2D2epA/edit#gid=108802943 It was there last I looked a few weeks ago. What happened to it? Is it coming back? Anyone have a copy so we can keep this going?
Does the kids count in this situation also? Children, yes. Here's the link from that email: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/entry-exit/non-eu-family/index_en.htm Under EU rules, you have the right to travel together with your core family members (non-EU spouse, children, dependent pare...
Where does the "Address check" part of the process come in? Somehow (I don't know how) I got the impression it meant they were starting on your application, but from studying the data in the spreadsheet, the time between the address check and the congrats email is pretty short. Is the addr...
My sister is adopted. She was adopted under US law.
Our grandfather was born in Ireland.
She has no idea who her birth parents (or grandparents) are/were. Safe to say they're not Irish.
Can my sister apply for Irish citizenship through the FBR?
