Written answers
Tuesday, 2 October 2018
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Citizenship Status
Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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156. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign birth registration application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39974/18]
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Based on the documentary evidence supplied in support of the application in question, it is not necessary for the applicant to have their birth entered on the Foreign Births Register as they were born abroad to an Irish-born parent.
The applicant in question is automatically an Irish citizen and is eligible to apply for an Irish passport. This has also been communicated directly to the applicant and a refund for the application for Foreign Birth Registration has issued.
Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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157. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a foreign birth registration application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39975/18]
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Based on the documentary evidence supplied in support of the application in question, it is not necessary for the applicant to have their birth entered on the Foreign Births Register as they were born abroad to an Irish-born parent.
The applicant in question is automatically an Irish citizen and is eligible to apply for an Irish passport. This has also been communicated directly to the applicant and a refund for the application for Foreign Birth Registration has issued.
Comments
Gavan Reilly
Posted on 9 Feb 2019 3:08 pm (Report this comment)
Hi James,
In short - yes. Your mother is entitled to Irish citizenship (even if she did not hold it) and therefore so are you.
The Department of Foreign Affairs can guide you through the whole process, they've got a useful page here:
https://www.dfa.ie/passports-citizenship/citizenship/
Be advised that you first have to apply to be entered on the Foreign Births Register which is in itself a complicated process that can involve trying to hunt down a lot of paperwork. Once you've completed that, the process of securing citizenship (and a passport) is quite a bit simpler.
Hope this helps!
James Pocknee
Posted on 8 Feb 2019 11:42 pm (Report this comment)
Hi, my mother was born in Northern Ireland in 1966, however she does not have an Irish passport. I was born in England. Am I an Irish citizen and able to apply for an Irish passport based on this information?