Registering newborn for Irish passport from UK. Foreign Births Register - FBR

Beluga5

Hi All,

Online info is confusing. I was born in England to parents from Northern Ireland. I have an Irish (and GB) passport since a few years.

I want to register my newborn on the FBR. There is a concept of continuing hereditary citizenship *so long as* the parent is registered prior to birth of the child for each generation. It isn't clear if I'm on the FBR and it isn't searchable by the public. The site gives different routes to registration including via parent or grandparent.

Is it better to register/claim citizenship via myself or grandparents ? Concerned that if I choose the 'wrong' method that the baby won't be able to pass citizenship to the next gen.

As a foreign-born Irish citizen with a passport does that imply I'm now on the FBR or that that separate ?

Thanks very much.

mgdavid

Can you ask your parents, presuming they would be the ones who did the application to the FBR, if it was done at all?


You could call the embassy and ask if a search can be done for you?
https://www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/great-britain/contact-us/


or the same question to the DFA in Dublin?
https://www.dfa.ie/about-us/contact-us/

Rowbo

My understanding is that only the children of irish citizens need to be registered on the FBR. You are classed as an irish citizen because your parents were born on the island of ireland meaning you dont need to be registered on the FBR.

Im not sure that helps you with any of your questions really. Im in the same boat and am about to start the process of registering my kids.

NoodleDoodleMan

I can claim an Irish passport via a grandparent - but it is an expensive procedure to get on the register.

You need birth and marriage certificates for both your grandparents on the appropriate heritage path, same for both your parents, and your own birth certificate - official registrar's services supplied copies only, plus separate additional photocopies of these......... a mountain of paperwork.

After the Irish Government fee is added I reckoned not much change out of a grand Sterling

Not sure how it works specifically in the case outlined above - the Irish Embassy provided me with a procedural guide, that's where I would go for expert advice.

Good luck getting it done.

David_Aston

I don't think it was as expensive as that quite recently Noodle.
My eldest, used my Mom via FBR. Despite complications such as a work house registered birth, and a late divorce from my Dad and subsequent remarrying, I reckon it was about three or four hundred quid.

NoodleDoodleMan

The guidance I got from the Irish Embassy quoted a fee of 750 Euros to have the claim validated - then you need to add on the cost of various birth and marriage certificates.

I'd need to dig out the paperwork again to be certain though.

Jimmithecat

Are you sure you are going directly through the Irish embassy in London ? it was no where near this price a few years ago - especially for an under 18 - also you only need to go though one grandparent

pramsay13

My wife was born in Belfast so applied for an Irish passport for her and our three children, who were born in Scotland.
It was something like 150 Euros all in.
I can't get one unfortunately unless we live in Ireland for 3 years (I think) so if it becomes relevant we will have to queue separately at airport immigration lines.

NoodleDoodleMan

Are you sure you are going directly through the Irish embassy in London ? it was no where near this price a few years ago - especially for an under 18 - also you only need to go though one grandparent

I may have misread the fee - only glanced at it in passing after having read through the plethora of supporting documents required and decided not to go further.

scrabster

NoodleDoodleMan wrote: »

I may have misread the fee - only glanced at it in passing after having read through the plethora of supporting documents required and decided not to go further.

Cost me less than £450 in total for FBR and the passport. I only had to get 1 marriage certificate though, as I had the other docs. Think it was four or five months in total from first applying to getting the passport.