Freedom to travel with an Irish passport As of 2021,
Your Irish passport allows you to travel abroad and entitles you to certain diplomatic support services from Irish embassies if you get into difficulty abroad. While your Irish passport is an internationally recognised travel document, it does not give you an automatic right to enter other countries.
Dual citizenship allows you to move freely between the two countries. Therefore, if you're a holder of both a British and an Irish passport, you can travel, work, and study in the UK, Ireland, and other EU member countries.
Both Australia and the United Kingdom allow Dual Nationality. This means that a person can hold nationality (and the passport) of both countries.
Both Ireland and Australia allow for dual nationality. If your child is an Irish citizen (born to a parent who was born in Ireland), you can also apply for an Irish passport for him/her.
Yes, you can apply for Irish citizenship by descent. In these cases, you can become an Irish citizen through Foreign Birth Registration. Once a person is entered onto the Foreign Births Register they are an Irish citizen and entitled to apply for an Irish passport.
You can move freely within the Schengen Area (and to the countries above) after your arrival, for up to 90 days. Applicants will need to pay a fee and apply online giving some basic personal information.
Our policy on dual nationality
The United Kingdom: recognises dual nationality. allows British nationals who have dual nationality, to hold a British passport.
Can Irish citizens live in Spain? Irish citizens can live in Spain with an Irish passport as the Republic of Ireland is part of the EU. So you've got the freedom to move and live in any other EU country, such as Spain.
The Benefits of Irish Citizenship
travel without a visa to 170 countries (for more details click here), live, work, or study in Ireland or the UK with no restrictions. live, work, or study in any EU/EEA country with no restrictions. get or retain citizenship of another country without losing Irish citizenship.
A person is eligible to apply for a British passport if they have British nationality. This includes a person who has British citizenship. Discussions have increased recently about how Irish citizens who were not born in Northern Ireland, but who are now resident there, can obtain British passports without cost.
You must be an Irish citizen to get an Irish Passport. You are automatically an Irish Citizen if you were born in Ireland before 2005 or if you were born abroad to a parent who was born in Ireland before 2005.
The rankings for the world's most powerful passport have been revealed and Ireland's is officially ranked as the tied-sixth best passport to have. An Irish passport will entitle a traveller to access 187 different countries or territories without having to have a visa.
If you are applying by post, you should allow at least 8 weeks for your application to be processed (not including postage times). This period may be extended at certain times of the year due to increased application numbers. First-time postal applications from the UK take at least 8 weeks.
That means about 6.7 million people in the UK who don't already have an Irish passport who could be entitled to one. We think that's a conservative estimate, but it's still quite a lot more than the current population of the Republic of Ireland, which is 4.8 million.
While Australia now recognises dual citizenship, there are still many countries that do not allow their citizens to hold an additional foreign citizenship. It is a long-standing principle of citizenship law that the citizenship of a state is bestowed by that state.
Drawbacks of being a dual citizen include the potential for double taxation, the long and expensive process for obtaining dual citizenship, and the fact that you become bound by the laws of two nations.
With an e-visa, Irish citizens can stay in the country for 90 days. Once you submit your application and required documents, you'll receive your e-visa via email. Afterward, you can pack your bag and travel to Australia!
Generally, a period of stay of up to three months is granted, but up to 12 months may be granted in certain circumstances. Applicants will have to pay a fee to submit their application.
Australians don't need a visa to travel to countries in the Schengen Area for up to 90 days in any 180-day period.
Unless at least one parent or an Irish-born grandparent was an Irish citizen at the time of your birth, you have no automatic right to Irish citizenship on the basis of extended previous ancestry (that is, ancestors other than your parents or grandparents).
The spouse or civil partner of an Irish citizen may apply for Irish citizenship through naturalisation after three years of marriage/civil partnership plus three years residence on the island of Ireland.