Irish passport as a Brexit protest

Maudi

With all the troubles in the world and you're mourning a European passport how ridiculous.

That's the thing about most remainers - they seem able to do more than one thing at a time.

For those of us not blessed with Irish ancestry, ETIAS is predicted to be up and running by May 2023 (six months overdue) whereby we can fill in a simple form on line with scanned passport and get a 3 year visa for the huge sum of €7!

The 90 day in a rolling 180 still applies of course, as it always did pre-Brexit. Personally, I haven’t found the queues for entry any longer than pre Brexit except for last time at Malaga where we sailed through the non EU lane whilst two German flights arrived at the same time and they joked with ironic shrugs that it wasn’t meant to be that way around!

With all the troubles in the world and you're mourning a European passport how ridiculous.

Just renewed mine and I mourn the old one. Would love a European passport because I loathe Brexit and if I could magic up an Irish great grand parent to have enabled this, I would be elated. What a loss but sadly I have said it all before.

Anyone who “can’t see the point” obviously think Brexit a marvellous idea with no downsides for anyone.

You can do it if you have a great grandparent who is Irish I have a whole squad of them ,sadly I cant find their birth details apparently lost during the Rebellion .I'm heading for Donegal later this year to see if parish registers have them

I don’t have Irish ancestry but a number of my friends have. Quite a few have applied for Irish pp’s for themselves and/or their children. To my knowledge all their applications have been granted, no one has been turned down.

My daughter has an Irish Passport,you don’t need to be on the Foreign Birth Register,that is for Irish Citizenship not a Passport.

My daughter just sent off the relevant paperwork,all of which I gave her and got her Passport.This was just after Brexit,before large amounts of people applied.

I'm very tempted as my grandfather was Irish. It will take a lot of research though. At the moment I'm not even certain what his Christian name was and have no idea about dates and places.

I have family, including a DS in Ireland, who live in the European Union so it will be easier to travel to visit them - like the good old days.

Both of my parents were from The Irish Republic. I may apply.

Mr. S. asked if I was going to as my maternal GM was Irish but I don't see the point.

MayBee70 Like it or not having an Irish passport is a birthright however you voted.

I'm a NI citizen. I've had an Irish passport for years.

Maybee

Agree

I don’t think that anyone who voted for brexit should have an Irish passport. It seems wrong that any brexit voters should then be able to avail themselves of privileges that have been taken away from the rest of us.

It would be interesting to know the increase in demand of EU passports after Brexit
How many of those voted for or against brexit

It is also worth it if you don’t want to be associated with the little Englander mentality . Hundreds of thousands are doing it or have done it already.

It is definitely worth it if you travel in Europe a lot p

Two year wait. Covid has a lot to answer for.

Thanks for bringing this up Grammaretto, my GM was Irish and I've meant to do this for ages. Smaller queues!

My dh did, a couple,of years ago now. He had a grandmother who was born in Ireland, though she moved to London while still very young.

Ok. Thanks everyone. I am keen to have a European passport. I didn't want Brexit and still don't.

Sago

If your doing it as a grandchild of an Irish citizen you need to go on the foreign birth register first, this takes 12 months plus and costs a few hundred euro.
You may then apply for an Irish passport.
I did it simply as my father was born in Ireland, I got birth and marriage certificates, filled in the application and got my passport within 6 weeks, it was under 100 euro.

My SiL's father was born in Ireland and, when he applied for nationality he was told "you don't need to, you've always been Irish even if you didn't realise it". He got his passport in about the same time as you mention.

He, and DD, are currently registering DGC on the foreign birth register.

Here’s a link.

www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi9vbbRsPb3AhVpS0EAHVG3ACQQFnoECAMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dfa.ie%2Fcitizenship%2F&usg=AOvVaw1k_5vFeaPL0DU8iMX0Y55G