residency through Irish Passport or other EU Passport.? - Page 8

Some people are over analysing the procedure of obtaining an Irish passport. Make no mistake, it is a valuable item and worth every penny it costs. Where there is a dispute regarding grandparent(s) etc I understand the trend is to come in favour of the applicant.

Both my grandfathers were from England. The "passport" situation doesn't work the other way round. I do not qualify for a UK passport. I applied for one some years ago and was refused within days of applying.

If you have a property in Spain and you have an Irish grandparent/parent/sibling and are a resident of the UK it probably is in your interest to get an Irish passport asap. There is ample information on the Irish Passport Office's website. Go for it and if you are in any doubt that you are in a small minority be aware that because of the huge amount of (UK) applicants it takes us Irish around six months even to renew our passports and even for that we have to jump through a number of hoops.

I keep saying this and still there are those who for whatever reason won't even think of applying.

Again, kudos to the administrators of this site for allowing such threads - some websites do not. And, if I may blow my own trumpet, I've been banging on this here for years.

My wife qualifies through her grandmother and we have started the process of gathering the necessary documents to enter her on the foreign birth register. It might take a year or two to get through the process but at least we won’t have to apply for a NLV three times 👍

I'm in the process of applying for the Irish passport. My application has been accepted and I'm now waiting to collate the necessary documents in order to proceed. It took about 3 months to get my father's birth certificate from Roscommon and I'm now waiting for my parents' marriage certificate which I expect soon. So far it has cost me around 100 pounds.

I too am in similar situation. I paid for copy of my deceased father b.cert with roscommon on 7th Oct&said should take around 2wks??. I dint need marriage cert so once i get b.cert i am having my passport application processed by Irish Community Care so i hope it wont take forever

As I said previously, mine took about 3 months, I hope yours is quicker. 

I really hope so and glad your on your way to getting yours

I see this chat started in August but  just incase it helps anyone  wanting to trace family records for Irish passport requirements, a good way of tracing your parents marriage is through a website called Free BMD Search.  This is a free site which deals in marriages, births and deaths in England.  It does not include Scotland or Wales.  You don't have to join a paying site necessarily.

Nice bit of info there Juanida. Let me jump in with another piece of relevant info:-

I was an Irish emigrant to the UK back in the late 60's and somehow returned to RoI for Christmas during my 2nd year and learned I had been successful in a written Civil Service competition held 2 years earlier and though the money was relatively small my outlay was less than in the UK. While in the UK I frequented several Irish clubs (club being an almost irrelevant word). Unfortunately, I found that many Irish had relinquished contact with their Irish relatives and friends. In fact, when returning to Ireland for Christmas I was advised by several of my "mates" (a term not in circulation in Ireland) if asked, to inform their relatives that they were supermarket managers or something, but in no circumstances was I to inform them of the truth regarding labouring, dreadful living conditions, alcoholism, 2nd wife, 2nd husband etc. 

I could write an interesting book on the plight of the Irish emigrant to the UK. I should also point out many Irish undertook successful adventures in the UK and "made it." But, many Irish towns have an exclusive Facebook site regarding their locality and many Irish (including me) have the gift of the gab since birth and are willing to give information anytime. Anybody interested can pick up a Facebook friend in these towns and occasionally a cameraphone photo of a gravestone can qualify somebody for an Irish passport. Even if you don't need an Irish passport and require info of your roots, you could do worse than visit the relevant Facebook town/village site.

Remember many official birth records pre 1952 can be scant too. I know people in their 60's and 70's who are actually older than what the birth cert. says.

Yes I lived in London ( after comming up from liverpool , in London cricklewood , and Kilburn were massive Irish towns .. the galtymore was a big Irish club in the 70s as a electrician , I worked with many Irish colleagues ..in the building trade in liverpool ( which is like Ireland ) everyone has a Irish name , or Scottish , or welsh …many Irish. Have left Kilburn , and cricklewood , now days. But I do remember when it was a mini Ireland ….