Citizenship Naturalisation Following the Court of Appeal judgement regarding reasonable periods of time to be absent from the State in the final year before application, a high priority of the Citizenship Division of the Immigration Service Delivery Function of the Department is to hold citizenship ceremonies for as many qualifying applicants as possible. Accordingly, [...]
The next citizenship ceremonies will take place on Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd March 2020 at the Killarney Convention Centre in Killarney, Co. Kerry. At the ceremony candidates will take an oath of fidelity to the nation, receive their certificate of naturalisation and thereby become Irish citizens. Given the volume of e-mails we are currently experiencing [...]
2,000 people conferred Irish Citizenship in Killarney People from over 100 countries receive Irish Citizenship today Ministers welcome opportunity to confer Citizenship following Court of Appeal ruling 260 people from UK receiving Irish Citizenship Today in Killarney, almost 2,000 people became new Irish citizens. In two separate ceremonies at the INEC in Killarney, applicants from over [...]
I want to assure people that we are doing everything possible to put in place a solution on an urgent basis. I have taken expert legal advice and I intend to introduce legislation to address the issue that has arisen in the recent High Court citizenship judgment on the law governing applications for citizenship. At the [...]
The Department is continuing to work on finding solutions to the situation as quickly as possible. The best interests of applicants and future applicants are foremost in our considerations. On Thursday 25 July 2019, the Minister for Justice and Equality, Charlie Flanagan obtained Cabinet approval for a proposed Bill, which seeks to resolve the issue that [...]