duffy1867 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 5:56 pm
calgor wrote: ↑Thu Feb 17, 2022 5:40 pm
I've been lurking here for a while and finally got some news:
Application received: Dec 29 2019
Request for docs: Feb 17 2022
They requested that I send in my mom's FBR, which seems strange because I'm applying through my grandmother (her mother) and I sent in all the appropriate documentation for that, and FBR is not required when claiming citizenship through grandparents. My mom got her FBR nearly a decade ago and is having trouble tracking it down (she does have her Irish passport though).
Does anyone know why they want her FBR to complete my application? I have two brothers who already have their FBRs and they never got this request.
This is interesting (and something similar was brought up earlier in the week on here in relation to FBR for people with Irish parents)
Have the rules changed since your mum applied? As I understand the current rules, anyone with an Irish parent is already a citizen and therefore nor required or even eligible to apply for FBR - so as I understand the current rules, she could not even have this certificate? (but I think you're saying she does...)
Interested to learn more and if the rules have changed over time...
martingeorge wrote: ↑Fri Feb 18, 2022 5:43 pm
Hi all
Long time lurker here
Initial application made 8 Jan 2019
Docs received 3 Feb 2020
Yes a year from application. Time and tide wait for no-one but cancer re-focuses your priority lists very quickly. Nothing happened since then but Wednesday 16 Feb 22, I received a call from a Dublin Number but was out. No message left and when I tried to call the number back the system told me ''We are unable to connect you to this number''.....Oh well, now waiting for another ring....or an 'e' mail. I don't usually get calls from Dublin by the way
This is indeed interesting. I as well am applying through my Grandmother who was born in Cork to Irish parents. My mother was born in London. She has never applied to the FBR or had an Irish passport, (she moved to the US as a child).
Seems like an error on the FBR end to me. Perhaps to deal with the backlog they have hired and are training people to fill in, and the person misunderstood your application.
I have several friends who've done this process in the last 20 years, through an Irish grandparent, none of them received this request.
Keep us posted as to how it develops!