Urgent advice needed please

[Alish60]

I have a friend, he recently applied for Irish citizenship on the base of beeing married to an Irish citizen, now his relationship is coming to the end, My question is, what happens if his relationship ends? is he not eligible for naturalization anymore he is no longer in relationship with his wife?
any advice is most appreciated.

[IntegratedMigrant]

He has applied for citizenship based on marriage to an Irish national for 3 years and that the crucial point that matters.
The major part of marriage to an Irish national is that She agrees to sign the statutory declaration which in his case, she did signed it.

Depending on how INIS check backgrounds for Spouse of an Irish National and their Irish partner, this may or may not be used against him in making the decision based on his application.

Most people may believe that he married her for citizenship and now he applied for one wants to get ride of her. That is the general stereotypical image of Spouses of an Irish nationals.

If there is no divorce or separation agreement for now, then his is more than likely to be assessed fairly and not based on his current relationship issues

[jeupsy]

On top of what has already been mentioned, I would say it also depends on your friend's current relationship with his wife. If they are in very bad terms and to 'hurt' him she decides to write INIS a letter and explain they are about to get sepearated; I would assume it could seriously compromise the application as they could say the marriage is not legitimate anymore.

So the question is can he go through another year (probably less, but 1 year to be safe) without having the actual divorce pronounced or is wife getting angry and trying to compromise the application?