Hi all, After I received my citizenship last year my three sisters were inspired to do the same. They sent off a joint application with their three different addresses (two in UK one in France) and three different countries of birth (Australia, Canada and UK - our parents were great travellers), so ...

Question about siblings in different countries. There are 4 of us currently residing in 2 countries...we all share the same Irish grandfather, we all want to get our FBR. FBR web site says that siblings can submit multiple applications in one envelope all sharing the same ancestral certificates, bu...

It’s the one with the picture of photos in the icon.

We used a free app: id photo maker, which was easy peasy.

Apologies as I know there is another thread for passports but this may apply to FBR as well. There was a recent question about contacting witnesses in different time zones. This worried me too as I live in Melbourne which is currently eleven hours ahead of Dublin so no office hours overlap whatsoeve...

[quote=GoingBackBackToEire post_id=2098695 time=<a href="tel:1670453948">1670453948</a> user_id=257805] I'm skimming through the fist few pages of this thread and it's remarkable how different things were back in 2018-2019. Applications were sent to your local consulate or embassy where t...

Final update: Application: 7 June 2020 Documents received: 23 July 2020 Address confirmation: 14 October 2022 Congratulations: 26 October 2022 Certificate received: 14 November 2022 (post is slow to Australia) In tomorrow's post go my passport application and all the family documents to my sisters s...

I can practically smell the Guinness: Application: 7 June 2020 Documents received: 23 July 2020 Address confirmation (with typos and no promises - see earlier post): 14 October 2022 Congratulations: 26 October 2022 My congratulations email says my certificate is already posted, so I definitely think...

I received the same one! Maybe its just the person doing it having a different style? The full wording: Dear Joanna I am currently reviewing your application for entry into the Foreign Births Register, To ensure these documents are dispatched to the correct address you should confirm your address b...

The full wording: Dear Joanna I am currently reviewing your application for entry into the Foreign Births Register, To ensure these documents are dispatched to the correct address you should confirm your address by return email. If you have moved address since you completed your application you shou...

It was signed off with a first and last name and the email address was fbrclarification@dfa.ie. Hmmm.

Hi all, I'm curious about the wording people are getting in their address check email. I remember a while back the address check was a formality just prior to the congratulations email. but I had the following paragraph in mine: "Receiving this email is in no indication of a successful outcome ...

I Hello everyone, I have been following this timeline since 2020. My wife and her brother have applied to be FBR'd in June 2020. Documents were received sometime in July 2020. They have received a clarification email yesterday (12 Oct 2022) to evidence the catholic confirmation names of their Irish ...

Hi all,

I am nearly uncorking the champagne:

Application date: 7 June 2020
Document received date: 23 July 2020
Address confirmation email: 14 October 2022
Congratulations email:
Certificate received:

Definitely moving fast!

Following that last post, I would like to reassure the newbies to the forum that most of us are here to give each other advice and support. We don’t sneer at people who might make a mistake on the form and we don’t think the FBA staff are our enemies.

I think my Grandad came over from Ireland to Scotland with his family as a child. My dad was born in Scotland. The reason why I was concerned is that my Grandad fought in WW2 with 3 of his brothers, and I wondered if perhaps he needed to be a British citizen to do that? Or renounce his Irish citize...

One thing to bear in mind is whether you need your birth certificate for your marriage, in which case you can always order a duplicate copy.

Great news!

This is all perfectly normal in Europe. In France on really official documents, for example when we bought our house, it is my maiden name that is used, even though my passport and driving licence show my married name. It makes sense to me as the name you were born with is the only one that doesn’t ...

Wahoo! I'm officially Irish! Will be enjoying a Guinness tonight! Application submitted: Jan 2020 Documents accepted: Feb 24 2020 Address verification: Mar 1 2022 Congratulations email: March 9 2022 Now to wait for my docs to be returned to Australia... so I can send them back as part of my Irish p...

HarleyQ from everything I’ve read on this forum - and that’s a lot - you have done everything right.

Thank you so much for that information, which is excellent news for me. Assuming there are no hitches, when I become an Irish citizen my British husband and I will be able to spend long summers in France without applying for the long-stay visas every year. As we live in Australia that means no more ...

I’m in a similar position as door-to-door tracking from Australia to Ireland is not available with our post office. I sent my documents in June 2020 and have heard nothing since, as expected. I have read other posts of people hearing nothing until the address check so I’m remaining optimistic.

Very helpful thank you and that is an impressive fag packet! I do think we can be more confident about the speed of processing, however. If they can process 7000 in 12 months when the office is closed and most of the staff are redeployed then surely they can do better than 12,000 in 18 months when t...

Morning all, Long time lurker, and very appreciative of all of the information. I applied in June 2020. I sent all my documents a few days after we were told not to, not for any sensible reason but because it had taken so long to gather all my documents I couldn’t bear for the whole thing to grind t...