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by avcentraltias » Sat Nov 06, 2021 8:59 am
Hello everyone, like so many British citizens I too am jumping on the post Brexit Irish citizenship bandwagon, and having spent much of my life treating Ireland as a home from home regularly visiting family over there, I will be proud to become an Irish citizen.
For reference, I believe I can be entered on the foreign births register as My Grandfather was born in Armagh, My Grandmother in Drogheda. Their child (my mother) was born in Birmingham UK, and sometime after that I was also born in Birmingham UK
I believe I have done all the right things when it comes to getting an Irish Passport for mum as I don't think she needs to be on the FBR to get a passport. Is that right? Im just waiting for some photo ID to come through for her before I send the Passport application off but apart from that I think that application is ready to go.
When it comes to me, please correct me if any of the following is wrong:
I have to be entered on the FBR before I can apply for an Irish passport.
In order for me to be entered on to the FBR I first have to get Mum entered on the FBR as I can not apply for myself without her Naturalisation date and number.
Something else that strikes me is that the first page of the fbr.dfa.ie website application, under the "General Tab" asks how the parent acquired Irish citizenship. In the case of my Grandfather none of the five options apply to him. He was born in Ireland himself. He has not become naturalized. He has not been adopted. He married an Irish woman. Therefore, when it comes to submitting the FBR application for mum the application form shows that Grandad as "Citizenship category of parent: Born abroad to a parent born in Ireland" which is not true.
What am I getting wrong?