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Citizenship: residency or marriage

  • 24-11-2019 11:10PM
    #1
    Leellouu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭


    My husband is from the UK and wants to apply for citizenship here. He has lived here since 2010 and we've been married since 2014 so he qualifies both by residency and marriage. Is there any benefit to applying via one or the other? In processing time, applications approved etc? Should we just fill in all the sections and info and effectively give them the info for each type of naturalisation?

    I contacted the office but they just said it's up to us.


Comments

  • #2
    dennyk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,920 ✭✭✭dennyk


    Marriage to an Irish national doesn't confer any automatic or special right to citizenship, it only reduces the period of reckonable residence required to apply for naturalisation from five years to three. If he's been residing here since 2010, it really makes no difference in his case.


  • #3
    seagull
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭seagull


    I think someone else decided it was easier to apply based on residency as that only required getting together paperwork for one person.


  • #4
    splinter65
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,420 ✭✭✭splinter65


    seagull wrote: »
    I think someone else decided it was easier to apply based on residency as that only required getting together paperwork for one person.

    That’s the absolute truth. Applying via residency means only having to get bills etc for the applicant not the Irish spouse


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