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AlexFord
Joined 2017
Posts: 11

US Citizen Applied for FBR

7 years ago

In January I applied to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Dublin, for entry in the Foreign Births Registry. I'm a US born citizen, and my maternal grandfather was born in Ireland.

After no feedback at all in the interim, my FBR certificate along with all the documents I submitted were returned to me last week. So the entire application process took just under 4 months.

This week I submitted my Irish passport application, using the FBR certificate I received last week. This time, the application had to be mailed to the Irish Embassy since I live in DC. For people living elsewhere in the US, you'll need to mail the passport application to your nearest Irish consulate instead.

I'll let you all know how fast the turnaround is for my passport application. But at least the FBR application process didn't seem to be impacted by a lot of new applications from UK citizens affected by "Brexit."

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