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Foreign Births Entry Book after 1986 and Great Grandparents - Legal Challenge

  • 03-04-2019 7:10pm
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    soapbloggs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 95 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Regarding citizenship through descent from Irish great grandparents:

    'A person is entitled to Irish citizenship, by having their birth registered in the Foreign Births Register, but only if your parent had registered by the time of their birth'.

    My understanding is that this used to not be the case until 1986 or a few years earlier when the law was altered to reflect the above. One was simply entitled to Irish citizenship if a descendant of a great-grandparent regardless of circumstances.

    A US based organisation called Irish Citizenship Consultants posted on their website about two years ago that they were examining the possibility of making a legal challenge of the above law. They thought at the time (before floods of British applicants due to Brexit) that they could argue that the number of people this law change would effect, could be relatively small and therefore no threat. Anyway, I've not seen anything subsequently about that from them.

    I was wondering if anybody has heard anybody else considering challenging this law or some possibility of change on the cards?

    Incidentally, I'm asking about this because I can't naturalise as I was unemployed within the last three years. The rules say you can't depend on the state financially within the last three years. This is why I have not pursued this avenue. It was always an expensive option, so I hadn't tried naturalising earlier in my life. However, since the British EU referendum result as a British citizen, I'm regretting I hadn't now!


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