Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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851. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the case of person (details supplied) who applied to become an Irish citizen through foreign birth registration. [18834/21]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The processing of Foreign Births Registration (FBR) applications has been temporarily paused since Ireland entered Level 5 restrictions of the National Framework for Living with COVID-19.

The application in question is incomplete and thus cannot be approved for entry into the Foreign Births Register. The Department wrote to the applicant on 14 December 2020 to inform them of this and to outline the outstanding documents for the finalisation of his application.

The Passport Service can confirm receipt of the requested documents via two separate envelopes in January 2021, and these documents are currently stored in a secure environment until the FBR service resumes under Level 3 restrictions.