Called INIS, still waiting for Social Welfare report.

A further change will see spouses and dependants of future work permit holders having to apply for permits in their own right. A giant leap backwards. ... while Ireland had benefited greatly from immigration in the past decade and continues to do so now, the revised legislation was needed to reflec...

IwannaBePaddy wrote:Applied June 2006, Garda check Nov 2008

When did they ask you for more documents (P21, etc.)?

u0543 wrote:Called INIS today.
Application sent to minister 01/04/09.
Applyed 10/04/09 based on 5 years WV.
Add docs requested Sep 08.

Wow! Things have improved!
They are now processing them in advance

For the benefit of those new to the forum:

Scrudu has made an excellent spreadsheet to track applications so that we have an idea of what's going on.
Please feel free to add and update your information (anonymously, of course).

http://www.editgrid.com/explore/user/sc ... nship_apps

Hi there I rang to INIS last week and they told me that my app passed Garda and was in Welfare check (they told me 2-3 weeks for this before going to the minster , do you know how long takes in reality? thanks IwannaBePaddy Mine has been in "Welfare check" for over 2 months. What are your...

Congrats Nehro,

What were your timelines?

NearlyIrish wrote:what are your timelines Tom4?

Applied mid '06
Info requested late '08
Currently waiting for other agencies to report back.

NearlyIrish wrote:I know...patience is the virtue now.

As it has been for nearly 3 years now.
Strangely, I find that I am becoming ever less virtuous as time goes on

I was told once by INIS that the reason why 2006 applications are taking long to process is because this is the year they received the highest number of applications. That's just bulls hit!! Here are the figures for applications each year: 2005 - 4523 2006 - 7030 2007 - 8003 2008 - 10885 Source is ...

I am graphing these results and one thing that is obvious is that 2006 has so far been more or less ignored!!!!

citi wrote:Hi all,

Today I took my oath at district court and I saw a chinese lady who happlied in 2008 and having waited for only 12 months also taking oath following approval by minister! Processing of 2008 applications has also begun.

Disgusting! - no need to say more than that.

They will do exactly as they like and a challenge in court will see them hide behind the usual "absolute discretion".

deleted - post duplicated - looks like the board is having software problems.

Can I suggest that maybe we use the existing spreadsheet to enter our data and then someone (scrudu?) can transfer it regularly to another read only spreadsheet that only he/she can write to but we can all read??

Oh dear!! It looks like some IDIOT has sabotaged the spreadsheet!! They have deleted quite a lot of entries from the "Citizenship Applications" page and made a rubbish entry in the first line. They have entered their country as... ireland . The "Residency Stamps" data has also be...

It is €150 for LTR, and although they give it for 5 years or the expiry of your current passport, the remainder of the 5 years is transferrable to the new passport. This is made irrelevant because by that time we all will have qualified for WCT. My view: wait for at least 3 months (unless your cur...

Hi, It depends when your current permit expires, but... It is possible that you may get citizenship approval in the next 3 months. Have you called to check the progress of your application? So, perhaps, don't do anything (including getting your LTR stamp, at a cost of €150) until your 8 years is f...

Hi Marialear,

Common sense (which is obviously in short supply at INIS) would say that it shouldn't be too long, maybe a month.

But they told me that too and I later found out that they were lying!!

I agree with crown to a certain extent. They just seem to say anything on the phone, first they told me that mine had gone to the minister, then later they said it was still with social welfare. Who knows what the real situation is? They just don't know what they are doing. I think it is still worth...

It depends on why the grandmother had citizenship, see this leaflet... http://www.inis.gov.ie/en/INIS/Information_Leaflet_No_1_030309.pdf/Files/Information_Leaflet_No_1_030309.pdf page 3 If grandma was born in ireland, then probably yes, if not then maybe not, but there are other factors such as reg...

I agree. But the minister has also said that he believes that 18 months is the best possible time. Not really, UK are much faster, and for far greater numbers, too. In any case, it makes no difference to us what they achieve in the future, our applications have already taken a scandalous amount of t...

You can try, but we will just get one of the meaningless standard answers (kind of like the one above). Mine is 2006 and was in Tipp, now with Social welfare, not sure what this does to the theory, but I do know that there is a LOT of resistance to decentralisation and the go-slow approach is one th...

The INIS citizenship page has been changed today...

http://www.inis.gov.ie/en/INIS/Pages/Co ... %20Section

Nothing new or interesting, they have removed the figures regarding what stage the applications were at.

I count 13 on this forum from May to July '06.

That will make a goob pub session when/if they are approved