IrishCentral's guide to getting an Irish passport

Yeah, but all of them aren't able to just pick up and relocate to Canada or Australia (or the USA). If someone outside the Republic is eligible for an Irish citizenship through descent, then obtaining an Irish passport is priceless. You can live and work in the UK or any of the other 25 European Union nations with an Irish passport. Getting a job and permanent residence status outside the EU is a much, much more difficult path for Irish leaving their country.

Right now I think telling the kids how to get a canadien or australian passport would be more beneficial with over 40,000 Irish kids after leaving last year.

seymour you can adopt him but speak to a lawyer first and he has to be under 18. Or by what you wrote is his birth mom Irish? If yes then there you go. If no then check with consulate and ask if stepson qualifies through his dad who obtained it through marriage, I imagine it depends on when he obtained it and when his son was born.

I love this but need to know how I can get my stepson an Irish passport. If I have one and my husband,his biological father, has his citizenship through marriage, can this boy qualify for a passport? Please advise, Erica [Wilson] Davey.

The quicker option is to put a load of the folding stuff in a brown envelope and give it to an Irish Politician... ;-0!

Whatsinamame: It's good that you remind us of this. As someone with a lot of contacts with the Irish community in Argentina, I can say they were really affected by this change. It was done without any proper notice or effort to warn people. Remember the isolation of Irish Argentines throughout most of the twentieth century. The Irish Embassy in Buenos Aires was useless in keeping Irish Argentines linked in to the old country. Successive Irish governments did nothing to support them, even though many Irish Argentine tried bravely to keep up their ethnic heritage. Ireland has always treated Irish Argentines like garbage. Now the shoe's on the other foot, as lots of Irish want to emigrate to Argentina. I hope they're turned away, just like the Irish turned the young Irish Argentines away. The Irish prefer to let Latvians, Lithuanians, Laotians etc. come in to settle Ireland.

In 1986 the good old Irish government screwed great grand children of Irish decent out of obtaining Irish citizenship and thus an Irish passport. Since the citizenship law says the grandchild of an Irish citizen has to be registered before the birth of his of her children. It use to be when the grandchild was registered it was effective as of their year of birth in 1986 it changed to the year they applied. Anyone not paying attention was screwed. Write to all of the Irish/American organizations you can to put leverage on them to change it back. Ireland always wants something from America but never seems to give much back!

I can trace my great-grandparents on my gradmother's and grandfather's side to Ireland. However, my grandfather's family moved from County Armagh to Scotland where he was born. And my grandmother was the first born in the US. So can I get an Irish passport or in a roundabout way get one through the UK? Though I want an Irish passport!

My father got off the boat at Ellis Island in 1928 and about 60 years later, I picked up my Irish passport. At the time, I was working for an international news organization and felt it might get me promoted. It did not, but I renew it out of sentimentality now. Please read and follow Joycean's post. If you are a dual Irish and US citizens, you must use your American passport to depart from and return to the USA.

Good article, Kelly. If anyone needs a genealogist's help, I can be reached at BGAndersson2@gmail.com.

besides sentiment It may be useful if say Bachmann or Palin ever become president.

sought after by cia and mossad is a given - Norris another conduit, for his israeli sex abuser of palestinian child.

...and when, pray tell, is the Irish government going to recognize those that can trace their ancestry back through their great-grandparjents instead of their grandparents?

Use your Amrican passport to enter and leave US. Actually, unless you plan on working in the EU, about the only reason for dual citizenship is sentiment.