Worried about utility bill for Irish citizenship

[noncena]

Hello

I am planning to apply for Irish citizenship but my utility bills are only available for half the time. That’s the only proof of residence I have including the rental agreement.


I thought I might be able to meet the requirement of 150 points through college attendance record. But apparently not. My previous housemate had the bills under her name. It was all paper based bills on her name so don’t have any copies of that. I have the bank statements with the electricity bill payment entry for each month. But would that count for anything?

Cheers

[meself2]

Do you have any other bills with your name and address? Broadband/bin/etc?
Seems like Citizenship is fine if bills are not just from the categories they have on the scoreboard.

To be honest, I doubt you can make any use of it - they want something with your name and address, as it means you specifically were living there and so on. But if other members have opposite opinions - even better.

[ttowners]

get copy of the bill form previous housemate?
along with something to proof that you were in the same address(perhaps college letters), and something written and sign by the bill owner to say you were living with him/her..

since the rule is new, + not much been written + no case example, we can only hope INIS will consider. the only way is to get as much proof as possible, its up to them to say they would accept it or not.

suppose the payment proof figure would match the figure on the bill.

[Nala2021]

The payment from your bank account is not enough - you could be paying off anything, at any given residential, or even commercial address. You need to get hold of the bills. Is there a way, via email preferably, to get the okay from your housemate whose name the bills were in, for you to personally contact the utility company in order to get the bills through. Then your chance is to write an affidavit to explain the situation - but you will have the bill in hand, showing the exact amount that has come from your bank account. You can also write an email to the company, or your housemate, cc'ing you with your contact number to sort the above out.