Minister McEntee opens temporary process for granting citizenship during COVID-19
The Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee TD, has today announced that a temporary system is in place that will enable citizenship applicants to complete [...]
Notice regarding sending a passport with your New Citizenship application
To help us to prioritise the processing of citizenship applications over the summer months, applicants are asked not to submit applications and accompanying passports [...]
Introduction of eVetting for Citizenship applicants
As part of our commitment to increased digitalisation, the Citizenship Division has introduced eVetting as part of the application process. This eVetting process will [...]
Emergency Return Of Passports – Update
As per earlier communications, applicants are asked not to submit passports/application forms, this still remains the case. The vast bulk of Citizenship staff are [...]
eTax Clearance
As and from the 23rd November 2020 all adult applicants for a certificate of naturalisation are required to have an up to date tax clearance [...]
Applications Approved and Citizenship Ceremony
COVID-19 has unfortunately prevented the holding of our large scale citizenship ceremonies which is impacting the processing of applications. As a solution on an interim [...]
Citizenship Ceremonies Update
The pilot virtual Citizenship Ceremony that took place on 10 July 2020, involved 21 applicants. A review of the pilot is underway and consideration [...]
Minister McEntee hosts Virtual Citizenship Ceremony
On Friday 10th July, 2020, the Minister for Justice & Equality, Helen McEntee TD, hosted one of the world’s first virtual citizenship ceremonies. This [...]
Citizenship Ceremony Update – COVID-19
The Department of Justice and Equality wishes to advise that due to the current Covid-19 Pandemic the citizenship ceremonies scheduled for Friday 3rd July [...]
July 2020 Citizenship Ceremonies
The next citizenship ceremonies will take place on Friday 3rd July 2020 at the Killarney Convention Centre in Killarney, Co. Kerry. Please do not [...]
Statement by the Department of Justice and Equality – Citizenship ceremonies scheduled for the 2nd and 3rd of March
The Department of Justice and Equality wishes to advise that the Citizenship ceremonies scheduled for the 2nd and 3rd of March will proceed as planned. [...]
Preparations for upcoming Citizenship Ceremonies – 2nd and 3rd of March.
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 [...]