seemcd wrote: ↑Wed Mar 29, 2023 6:23 pm
Thanks for your help on this. Its good find someone who has had dealings with this stuff.
Let me run through my thinking on this slightly nuanced adoption thing. Due to my mothers adoption and the 1956 rules she is considered as being actually(virtually) born in Ireland to Irish parents. She is Irish and this predates my birth and that of my kids. This makes her the Irish born grandparent of my children and who should be able to apply for FBR.
I don't want to turn this into an Adoption thread, but the conclusion you have come to is totally and utterly wrong. You're mother is not treated as "born in Ireland", s.11 INCA *does not do this*
Where I think you're going wrong is that you think "Irish Citizen" means "Irish Citizen". It doesn't.......
Here's the amended Act, for example:-
https://revisedacts.lawreform.ie/eli/19 ... ed/en/html
Section 6 "Irish Citizens", who are born on the island of Ireland, have a superpower, that no other type of Irish citizen *can give* - in that their children are automatically Irish citizens (whether they like it or not).
Children of Section 6 citizens are Section 7 "Irish Citizens". They cannot pass on automatically, their children can apply to become Section 27 citizens through FBR.
If you are adopted by, any type of Irish Citizen, you become a S.11 INCA Citizen automatically, it means you are treated like a Section 7 citizen. But that does not make you a Section 6 citizen. Your children apply via Section 27 FBR, like everybody else.