Passport/citizenship question

FanadMan

Hi folks

My friend who is non Irish but an EU citizen is looking to apply for an Irish passport. She was living and working in Ireland for about 15 years but earlier this year she had to go home to look after her elderly ill father.

While she was living here she had thought about applying for citizenship through naturalisation but then had to move home quickly for her father. She is now wanting to return to Ireland within the next year. Will her return home now nullify all the time she spent here previously?

Neither of us are too au fait with the ins and outs of immigration, citizenship etc and any of the info we've looked at online is in a totally foreign language (legaleese lol).

Can someone explain the process of applying for citizenship and passport in plain English please.

And mods, if this is the wrong place to post or going against charter, please move or lock it.

Thanks

Cheshire Cat

By the looks of it she'll have to wait for a year once she returns:


You must have had a period of one (1) year’s continuous reckonable residence in the State immediately before the date of the application and, during the eight (8) years preceding that, have had a total reckonable residence in the State amounting to four (4) years (information on calculation of period of residence can be found by clicking on Calculation of period of residence in relation to application for naturalisation).

See here:

http://www.inis.gov.ie/en/inis/pages/wp11000014

223vmax

Consider the costs to €1125....

FanadMan

Thanks for that folks. We were thinking she'd have to wait a year but can't get over the cost! Might be cheaper for us to get married


The above marriage mention was a joke but we have talked about it before - we are an on/off couple for years. Would marriage make any difference? I'm not trying to circumvent the laws but would it speed up the procedure?

FanadMan

FanadMan wrote: »

Thanks for that folks. We were thinking she'd have to wait a year but can't get over the cost! Might be cheaper for us to get married


The above marriage mention was a joke but we have talked about it before - we are an on/off couple for years. Would marriage make any difference? I'm not trying to circumvent the laws but would it speed up the procedure?

Being married would make no difference to the cost!

FanadMan

Damn......well, we'll have to see what we can do. Any idea why the price is so high? Is it just legal costs? Sorry for the stupid questions - I know nothing about the whole thing.....or anything to do with the law really.

Pro Hoc Vice

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Being married would make no difference to the cost!

Well only if they marry and the Orish Citizen dies! A bit drastic to save a few hundred euro.

http://www.inis.gov.ie/en/INIS/Pages/Citizenship%20fees

FanadMan

Pro Hoc Vice wrote: »

Well only if they marry and the Orish Citizen dies! A bit drastic to save a few hundred euro.

http://www.inis.gov.ie/en/INIS/Pages/Citizenship%20fees

Well, we won't be going there!! Thanks for the link

Cheshire Cat

Cheshire Cat wrote: »

You must have had a period of one (1) year’s continuous reckonable residence in the State immediately before the date of the application and, during the eight (8) years preceding that, have had a total reckonable residence in the State amounting to four (4) years

Does the 'that' refer to the date of application or the start of the one year period?

ie is the total time necessary four years or five years?

Carawaystick

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