Citizenship Certificate by post - do you need to be at home?

[punkGit81]

Question for those who had received the Citizenship Certificate by post: is this sent as registered post? Do you need to be at home or would they just drop it into the letterbox?

I was wondering as I'm usually at work now during the day, and I am also going away for few weeks later in the summer to visit my family, so I don't want to miss that.
Thanks in advance to anyone who knows about this!

[Gocho77]

They send it by certified post. Hence usually you will need to be home to sign. Some mailman doesn't required signature if he knows you and just leave it in the mailbox. But in normal conditions he just will leave a note with instructions of what you can do. Normally just go to collect in a main post office.

Now if you are going out for several days, anpost offers a service of pause my post. It just stop sending any post until you are back. Here is the link

https://www.anpost.com/Post-Parcels/Man ... ailMinder)

[punkGit81]

That's great, thanks a lot!

[jlrods]

Question for those who had received the Citizenship Certificate by post: is this sent as registered post? Do you need to be at home or would they just drop it into the letterbox?

I was wondering as I'm usually at work now during the day, and I am also going away for few weeks later in the summer to visit my family, so I don't want to miss that.
Thanks in advance to anyone who knows about this!

Hi punkGit81,
I'm in similar situation as you. I got the approval letter for certificate of naturalization last week and planing to complete the form within the next week.
I'm also going to travel abroad at the end of July for a week.
Are you planning to travel with your current passport and GNIB/IRP card?
Have you got any info regarding to what happen to the current residence permit once the certificate of naturalization is issued?
I haven't found any info yet.
Thanks.

[punkGit81]

@jlrods, I'm an EU citizen already, so I can't help much ... maybe you can post as a new topic and I'm pretty sure there will be people in a similar situation who have some good answers for you

[jlrods]

Thank you, no worries.

I may try that.

Regards.

[HannahNkunga12]

Question for those who had received the Citizenship Certificate by post: is this sent as registered post? Do you need to be at home or would they just drop it into the letterbox?

I was wondering as I'm usually at work now during the day, and I am also going away for few weeks later in the summer to visit my family, so I don't want to miss that.
Thanks in advance to anyone who knows about this!

They usually just leave it in the letter box. I never signed for mine. So no stress. You will find it waiting for you after work. Or if they need you to sign they will leave the missed post card. But usually they just leave it in letter box

[HannahNkunga12]

Question for those who had received the Citizenship Certificate by post: is this sent as registered post? Do you need to be at home or would they just drop it into the letterbox?

I was wondering as I'm usually at work now during the day, and I am also going away for few weeks later in the summer to visit my family, so I don't want to miss that.
Thanks in advance to anyone who knows about this!

Hi punkGit81,
I'm in similar situation as you. I got the approval letter for certificate of naturalization last week and planing to complete the form within the next week.
I'm also going to travel abroad at the end of July for a week.
Are you planning to travel with your current passport and GNIB/IRP card?
Have you got any info regarding to what happen to the current residence permit once the certificate of naturalization is issued?
I haven't found any info yet.
Thanks.

You only have to send copies of your passport and IRP card online when you're paying the 950. You will still have your original ones and can travel anytime. I still have both my passport and IRP card. IRP card is valid till 2023 so I can use it if I want to travel home since am dual citizen.
In your case you haven't got the cert yet so you are not yet irish citizen and can travel with old passport and use the IRP card. If you happen to travel after you get your cert, bring it as well.

[AmiVera2022]

Question for those who had received the Citizenship Certificate by post: is this sent as registered post? Do you need to be at home or would they just drop it into the letterbox?

I was wondering as I'm usually at work now during the day, and I am also going away for few weeks later in the summer to visit my family, so I don't want to miss that.
Thanks in advance to anyone who knows about this!

They usually just leave it in the letter box. I never signed for mine. So no stress. You will find it waiting for you after work. Or if they need you to sign they will leave the missed post card. But usually they just leave it in letter box

I'll second that, I also found it in my mailbox

[NFH5]

My naturalisation certificate was sent to the UK by An Post registered post, and the Royal Mail just dropped it in my letterbox, having obtained one signature from the concierge for all the signed-for deliveries in my building that day.