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Dual citizen entering Ireland with expired Irish passport and valid second passport.

  • 20-06-2022 7:35pm
    #1
    osarusan
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    This is something that may be happening to my daughter (a minor) if she does not get her renewed Irish passport in time.

    She would be arriving in Dublin airport (from Scotland) with a valid Japanese passport and an exipred Irish one. As an Irish citizen she does not have anything like a GNIB card that non-Irish residents would have. She can of course carry her expired Irish passport with her, but I'm not sure if that is worth anything as it's expired. She would be travelling with her mother (Japanese citizen only, with GNIB card) and her brother (dual citizen, both passports fine).

    Is this going to be any kind of issue, and if so, whay can be done to make sure it can be resolved?



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  • #2
    sekond
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 290 ✭✭sekond


    We did this a few years ago without any major problem - both children with valid NZ passports and expired Irish ones. Handed over both NZ and Irish passports at passport control and explained that we were in the process of moving back from NZ and hadn't been able to get the Irish passports renewed.

    Both parents were with them(one NZ citizen with, at the time, only an expired GNIB card as we had been away for a few years; the other an Irish citizen).

    Does Japan have visa free travel to Ireland? I could see a complication if a Japanese citizen needed a visa for a visit.



  • #3
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,632 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    No need for a Visa for a Japanese passport holder to enter Ireland. No legal requirement for an Irish citizen to possess a passport to enter Ireland from Scotland either. Absent any reason why the expired passport might not give sufficient evidence (eg if she had grown a lot and don’t resemble the photo), it would be illadvised of immigration staff to cause an issue. Certainly no need to stamps the Japanese passport although there is a special stamp (stamp 6) which can be placed in the non-Irish passport of an Irish citizen evidencing their dual citizenship. If the Inis individual is difficult then insist that they locate their stamp 6 and put it in! They should not suggest any time limitation.



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