Has anyone become Irish? (Or other EU Nationality)

She is Irish by descent (stops at Grandparents) so first step is applying for Foreign Birth Registration which she will need to get before she can apply for her first Irish passport. Warning that there is a hell of a waiting list due to everything being closed down due to the virus.
 
Martynt74 said:
Interesting cheers.

Sounds like Greece is much stricter on it's entry criteria vs Spain. My parents have got residency which they got prior to the withdrawal and then obviously a lot of people on shows like a New Life in the Sun etc move over there. The no working thing would be a big issue for us, but luckily i don't believe Spain has that restriction.

I am hoping having her EU benefits makes things easier after the 5yr mark when we apply for permanent residence.
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If we had been resident here on 31/12/2020 then I would have qualified for automatic residency, under the withdrawal agreement, but we only moved here in June last year, which complicates it. Is frustrating because my wife is Greek, and the kids also have Greek passports by birth, just me as the odd one out.
 
I have a British and Irish passport, my mother is Irish. I was born and lived in UK my whole life (well other than a bit in New Zealand).

Wonder if I can get my son, also born and lived in UK an Irish passport as well?
 
martin363 said:
I have applied for Greek residency, on the back of my wife being Greek, and us living in Greece (but not before the deadline for automatic residency).

It is a bit of a drawn out process, despite being almost a certainty..... There is up to a 2 year waiting list to have my application processed, (during which time I can live in Greece but not work). I am then given 5 year temporary residency, with no working rights, and no GR passport. After that 5 year period, I am then eligible for 10 year residency and a passport, though apparently the passport can take up to 7 years during that period to issued.... fortunately I only want to live here, but is a process...

Apparently there are only 3 ways for brits to move here, 1. Birth, 2. Marriage, 3. A lot of money that you will invest in Greece.
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I've never understood why immigration has the no working condition when applying for long term residency visas or permits. I've seen a similar condition with many countries immigration systems. I would have thought that being able to get a job would be a good thing, a way of showing that you're committed.
 
BowdonUK said:
I've never understood why immigration has the no working condition when applying for long term residency visas or permits. I've seen a similar condition with many countries immigration systems. I would have thought that being able to get a job would be a good thing, a way of showing that you're committed.
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I agree, I have been told it is possible to apply for residency with market access, again which I would probably be granted, but will take so long to happen it is just not worth it, and fortunately I do not need to work here.
 
When my elder son had been resident in Germany for 11 or 12 years he told me that he was applying for German citizenship.
I asked if he’d given it enough thought, what about if he ever wanted to return to U.K.?
He said, and it was true at the time, that it would be no bar to him coming back, U.K. was in the E.U. and he could go anywhere in the E.U. with a German passport.
When U.K. left the E.U. I asked if he would need a visa now to visit me or his mother, he said only if he stayed more than six months, which was highly unlikely.
I asked, what if you decided to return for good, and your wife and sons.
He said, “Dad, I love you and I love mum and my brother and I’m proud that I was born and raised in London, but you can stand on me, I would never come back here to live.”
 
Martynt74 said:
I had hoped to become Hungarian through my Grandad and had started eating Goulash and sitting in outdoor spas, but sadly because he left during WW2 and then settled in the UK after the war, he's classed as disowning the country and so i'm not eligible.
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Bit dodgy of Hungary to take that stance today considering which side they chose in WW2!

Interestingly Germany and Austria take the opposite stance re: Jewish people, I know someone who had a Jewish grandfather and can get a passport because he fled just prior to WW2.

Sounds like you're sorted with the wife's Irish passport anyway.
 
Both my kids were born in the UK but now have French nationality. I also have Cypriot nationality but that's one step too far for the family. You don't have to be born in the country to get another nationality if you have the relevant links or requirements.
 
dowie said:
Bit dodgy of Hungary to take that stance today considering which side they chose in WW2!

Interestingly Germany and Austria take the opposite stance re: Jewish people, I know someone who had a Jewish grandfather and can get a passport because he fled just prior to WW2.

Sounds like you're sorted with the wife's Irish passport anyway.
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Yeah, although to be fair i believe he was well up for it. He was from around Cluj which is now a bit confusing re Hungary/Romania. I think he actually left Hungary to join the war in Italy with Romania because Hungary hadn't joined in yet!
 
Sounds to me like your intentions are purely to gain the juicy EU benefits and not about the nationality you’re applying for :(
 
Chris Wilson said:
She can't "become" Irish, she's either Irish or not. She MIGHT be able to get an Irish passport, but to be Irish in the true sense she'd need to have been born in Ireland.
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I have been an Irish citizen (by birth) my whole life, because my dad is Irish. It is not something I need to apply for. I got my passport a few years ago, but that is something I have always had a right to as an Irish citizen.
 
EVH said:
Well I don’t agree with it… his choice though.
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I don't mean to have a dig, I kinda get what your saying that you should have pride in your nationality?

If so that's commendable.

But I look at a while ton on people with British passports that I guarantee don't give a **** about that.
 
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