Doddyod wrote: ↑Thu Jan 07, 2021 8:54 pm
Just got my FBR through after 18 months, but it has got me thinking about my kids. . . .
I had assumed as my farther was English and my mother was also born in England, but has recently gained Irish citizenship via her Irish parents, whom I also gained my FBR through, that they were not entitled to apply for FBR.
At the time of their births, my mother had remarried to an Irish national, so whilst their blood grandfather (my biological father, is English) their legal grandfather at their time of birth was an Irish national. . . .
So, do you think they can make a claim for FBR, through my Irish step father, their legal grandfather?
I may be misunderstanding, but if your mother was born in England, to parents born in Ireland, then she was automatically an Irish citizen from birth, and wouldn't have had to 'gain' it. So I understand you claimed your citizenship through your mother, her being an Irish citizen through her own parents.
If that's all correct, then no, unfortunately your children won't be able to claim Irish citizenship through you, unless you were on the FBR before the date of their birth, which it doesn't sound like they were from your post.
The remarriage of your mother has no relevance to the citizenship rights of your own children, unless he became your legal father on your birth certificate or something, in which case you would have been an Irish citizen, but that doesn't make sense as you have just applied for FBR - your children would be claiming their right to citizenship through you in that case. I think this is a misunderstanding which a lot of people have, because of the nature of the application - if you apply for FBR based on an Irish born grandparent, you aren't claiming your citizenship through them, but through your parent who is automatically an Irish citizen.
Simply put, if you're not an Irish citizen at the time of your child's birth, they cannot become Irish citizens through descent.