passlots wrote: ↑Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:13 pm
We appear to have no choice but to follow the British path first, and then we will be left with the decision of whether the Irish application is even worth the hassle thereafter, given current 1+ year processing times. We also want to be able to travel and take baby to see family during the first year and can't be left waiting 1+ years before visiting anyone.
I'm British (born and raised in the UK) - but I technically already had Irish citizenship because my dad was born in Northern Ireland (Belfast).
I applied for my Irish passport just after the EU referendum - I just had to get my dad's birth certificate from the Northern Ireland Records Office and his death certificate from the England and Wales Records place, which was all online. Then fill in the regular passport application form and I had my Irish passport within 3 weeks of deciding I was going to apply (including the time taken to get my dad's documents from the two separate UK authorities!)
Skip to April this year - my wife gave birth to our first child, we'd decided to get our child Irish citizenship as soon as we found out my wife was pregnant.
We obviously were always going to get her (our daughter) a British passport - but did try to go straight in for the Irish first - because Brexit. We came across the same issue.
The only way to do it was to get her a British passport first. My wife and I are both British born so I guess it was a simple application, we had her UK passport within two weeks of applying.
I submitted the application for her entry onto the Irish FBR, online, on the 29th of April 2019. It took a few weeks to get the documents for her together as we needed stuff like a letter from her doctor which took a lot of back and forth with the doctor's surgery for us to get. I posted the application and documents direct to Balbriggan a few weeks later and got a confirmation email on the 21st of May 2019, the email said it might take 'up to 6 months' to process.
Nothing since. It hasn't been 6 months yet though - I was hoping for November but reading everything here, I'm not so sure!
My wife claimed Dutch citizenship through her mum - it was quite an involved process, which involved going to the embassy in London and having fingerprints taken! That only took about a month!
(Hi everyone by the way - first post)