Citizenship - Where is my passport?

Jacovs wrote: »

However still waiting on a ceremony or the statutory instrument/declaration they intend to use to clear the backlog.

Same here. I think the way INIS has conducted itself, in particular that virtual ceremony that was a PR stunt rather than a genuine pilot, has been sub-standard. :mad:

A colleague of mine got her citizenship a week before I did, so she made the cut for the March 2020 ceremony whereas I didn't.

PommieBast wrote: »

Same here. I think the way INIS has conducted itself, in particular that virtual ceremony that was a PR stunt rather than a genuine pilot, has been sub-standard. :mad:

A colleague of mine got her citizenship a week before I did, so she made the cut for the March 2020 ceremony whereas I didn't.

I got my letter of approval on 2 February I think, sent them my GNIB card and the €950 the same day, was hoping to make the March ceremonies but didnt. Also had 2 colleagues who got their letters a week or 2 before me and did make the March ceremonies.

Problem for me is, I have been asking them to return my still valid GNIB card for the past 3 months, as some companies wont accept anything else for employment purposes (not even passport with stamp 4 and the letter of proposed citizenship). Each time a different helpdesk team replies to my email with a different irrelevant answer.

Ah well just have to wait...nearly a year.

ito wrote: »

It depends; imagine that you are from East Europe; the Irish passport is more powerful than the Bulgarian one (more info).

I wouldn't apply for it if I was losing my Spanish passport, but with the UK outside the EU I think it is a good idea to have this one as well.

Also, I believe that if I wanted to study a Masters here, I wouldn't need to pass an English exam.

My wife is eastern European and her passport is better than mine according to the link.
Don't t see the point in paying the money.
Plus our kids have dual citizenship and free medical care/ education there.

Looks like they have finally got round to sorting out citizenship declarations. Maybe time for a new time-line thread so we can see how quick (or more likely very slow) they actually are in sorting this stuff out...

Jacovs wrote: »

Seen that this morning too. Although I saw it published on the Irish Examiner website at 06:30 this morning before it was on any official sites, so I dont know how they get the information sooner.
Hoping to be in the first phase.

Press releases are issued well in advance with an embargo time. If you breach the embargo you won’t receive advance notice in future.

@ITO and others in similar circumstances, I suggest you have a look at the Immigration Boards forum.

They have specific Citizenship Application Timeline threads dealing with which is far more informative. The board is dedicated to immigration as well so you will get plenty of help from folk in similar circumstances.

I applied Feb 2019 and got approval Feb 2020 but narrowly missed out on the ceremony by a matter of days. Heard nothing since a letter acknowledging a change of address March 2020.


Until i read the link posted above I just assumed all this stuff about invites being emailed was just a big fat lie to keep people quiet.

I applied august 2019. Received letter in the post february 2020 to say ive been approved and to send them my GNIB card and €950, which I did the next day.
Just missed out on the March 2020 ceremonies.
Heard nothing then except for the announcements on their websites. Emailing them was no use.
Then got email on 20 January 2021 saying to send them final few things. Received certificate of naturalisation about 3 weeks after. So I got my certificate about 4 weeks ago in the post. A year after I was approved, and 18 months after I first applied.

Karwik wrote: »

Does the country of your passport really depend on your human rights?

In Ireland a major problem has been INIS holding onto people's paperwork (passports & GNIB cards), and as a result they cannot travel home, claim benefits, or take up work. Not sure I'd call it a human rights issue myself but there is a case to be made by them de-facto removing people's ability to make any living at all.

That wouldn't work. Citizenship is not like a passport application where the stages are prescriptive. It might take a fortnight to get security clearance reports from the UK for example but 18 months+ from parts of South America and Africa. So they are likely to be processing applications from hundreds of different dates at the same time.

I never said my wife was Bulgarian. I find your litany of assumptions baffling.

You said you wanted the website to say what date they were processing, not what stage the application is at?

Re 2020 stoppage, that was confirmed. No passports (bar emergency documents) or citizenship applications were processed during the initial lockdowns as staff were redeployed.

Noises I am hearing is that processing time is now two years.

I don't know why you tagged me. I just pointed out how pointless it would be to have a date they were processing on the website when any one person could be working on tens of applications (or more) all from different dates. Any given application stage can take minutes, hours, days, weeks or months depending on the application.