How hard would it be to recieve citizenship in ireland? whats the process?

Question

i just realized that my great grandparents are no longer able to pass on citizenship through descent.

Answer 1

If you're an American citizen, you can apply for dual citizenship if you have at least 1 granparent that was born in Ireland.

http://genealogy.about.com/library/weekl...

Answer 2

The Irish Embassy website has no info on becoming a citizen through naturalization, so you would have to comtact them for details.  The 1st site below says that you can recieve citizenship through naturalization , but you must have resided in Ireland for  at least 5 of the previous 9 years.

Answer 3

You cannot apply for Irish citizenship by staying living in CA. You do not have any automatic rights to be Irish; the fact that you have a great grandparent from Ireland has no relevance what so ever as it is too far back to gain any type of citizenship rights.

To obtain Irish citizenship you would need to get a work permit to be allowed to live in Ireland, be a legal resident for a minimum of 5 years & then apply for citizenship. Even by marrying an Irish citizen you need to be resident in Ireland with your Irish spouse (this is a new law that only came about in the 00’s).

Here is the link that you can use to finding out about citizenship in Ireland from Department of Foreign affairs)

http://foreignaffairs.gov.ie/home/index....

To find out how to get a work permit for moving to Ireland check out the Department of Enterprise Trade & Employment:

www.entemp.ie

link specifically to work permit for international workers:

http://www.entemp.ie/labour/workpermits/

You would be talking about getting Irish citizenship through naturalisation. This is handled by the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform.

http://www.justice.ie/

Answer 4

I have Irish citizenship. I went to the Embassy here in Boston. I had to bring my grandmother's birth , marriage (if they were married) and death certificate (if they passed away) , her daughter my mother's (to prove the line ) birth certificate , marriage certificate and then my birth certificate. They looked at all my paperwork , stamped them and sent me my citizenship papers. I then just pay for an Irish passport and I am a dual citizen of both Ireland and the United States. To the person who says you have to live there and all that ... Not true if you have a parent or grandparent that was born there unless they have changed it. I never left the country and was granted Irish Citizenship.