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Originally Posted by Jay_Benson
I applied for my Irish citizenship in late June 2018 and it came through last week. There is a large backlog for some reason..... Hopefully your son will get it through soon. I noticed a change on the Irish Foreign birth’sregister that allows siblings to apply at the same time rather than one at a time as had been the case.
I have been thinking about getting the citizenship sorted out for some time but the the trigger was Brexit - I want to have the choice to live in the EU - I just wish had done it 25 years ago before I got married and had kids as the kids would be able to get it too.
The biggest benefit may be that I can ride through Iran without needing a guide.
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I went through the Irish application process before Brexit blew up and it only took a few months. The original intent was to keep the Irish family connection going rather than the UK / EU passport shuffling that its since become. As things stand three of the four of us are now travelling on different country's passports and by the time all the applications etc have gone through we'll have eight passports between us. All this to try and ensure we can continue to work / live in 'Europe' as we have been for a number of years. And all of this without any mention of what I think of the merits / demerits of actually Brexiting.
Iran has been on my visit list for some time - especially so since I've had the Irish passport, but the problem recently has not been with Iran but with the US. We do visit the US frequently, have friends there and I even keep a bike there but - as I understand it anyway - visiting Iran would kick me out of the US waiver system and into the world of visa interviews and explanations. As the US connection is more important I keep postponing heading east in the hope that things might ease.
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