A scramble for EU passports is under way after Britain’s vote to leave the union. There has been a spike in the number of online searches for “getting an Irish passport”, and some European citizens publicly offered themselves – probably jokingly – in marriage.


Ireland’s foreign ministry said it had received a significant rise in the number of Irish passport applications from Britain. It published a guide on how to obtain documents for the 430,000 Irish-born people living in England, Wales and Scotland.

Anyone with a parent born in Ireland is automatically eligible for a passport, irrespective of where they live. People with an Irish-born grandparent or a parent who had Irish citizenship at the time of their child’s birth may also qualify.

Northern Ireland residents are also entitled to citizenship. Adam Quinn tweeted: “From Belfast, proud to be British but definitely getting an Irish passport to retain EU citizenship. Lucky I can do so.”

As well as the spike in UK Google searches for “getting an Irish passport”, there was evidence that panicked expatriates were trying to acquire citizenship and naturalisation in other EU countries.

Charles Masters, a translator who can certify legal documents, said he had received six or seven applications on Friday from Brits living in France seeking French passports.


“A lot of people were thinking they wouldn’t have to worry about getting French nationality. Now all of a sudden it’s ‘Oh Jesus!’” said Masters, who lives in Burgundy.

He said getting French citizenship was relatively straightforward. You need to have lived in the country for five years and to have no criminal record. The cost is a couple of hundred euros.

Masters, who is originally from Reading, said: “I’m gutted by the result. We got French nationality ourselves two-and-a-half years ago. We were thinking: ‘You never know.’ Now ‘you never know’ has actually happened. We are in shock.”


Other people resorted to humour to disguise their frustration and disappointment at the Brexit result. Some said they were accepting proposals or were seeking sham marriages. Other EU citizens said they were taking bids.

There was a wry realisation among international travellers on Friday that having a post-Brexit British passport would mean standing in the unfashionable slow-moving non-EU queue at airports. The days of gliding through the quick lane are drawing to a end.



Looking forward to getting off a plane full of Brits and watching them queue behind the chinese guy trying to get his point across to the one immigration officer in the non EU queue while I head to my sunlounger after sailing through....:dance:

If you study in France for two consecutive years then you can apply for citizenship.

The thing a lot of ex pats will fail is the oral and written French test. There’s a lot of Brits living in France who can’t speak or understand French.

Yes we are Out For Good
Our Great PM accepts he lost
what a Guy

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews...cid=spartandhp



Britons living all around the world are applying for Irish passports to “safeguard their positions” after Brexit, the country’s UK ambassador has revealed.
Daniel Mulhall said many of a record 500,000 applications in the first half of 2017 had come from British people who fear losing their rights to live and work in the EU after withdrawal.
That increase comes on the back of a 40 per cent rise in the number of Britons seeking Irish passports in the second half of 2016, immediately after the EU referendum.
“It’s risen very significantly,” Mr Mulhall told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. “We have to attribute that to the impact of last year’s referendum.”

Noone in my family is from anywhere else so I can't :(

My gran came from Slovenia in the 40s but don't think I could utilise on that

if you have the appropriate skills you will be in demand around the world no matter what passport you have. People should concentrate on achieving things in life rather than expect to get them handed on a plate

Same, mine are African so that's no use :laugh:

Can they work?
I will pay CASH & all their Legal TAXES
For assistance in 2 Offices.

No Robot will go near them,

All is Good TS

Some African Grannies
are in Big demand - they Work HARDER
Hayden

i if you don't have to apply for visas and stuff though, its a pain having to get a visa and pay for it when you go to the states and it really adds up if there is a few of you going :fist: say if you travel to Europe 2 or 3 times a year it would be useful to have an EU passport, its bad enough..do I sound like the vodaphone ad..its bad enough having to get a code from the DVLA to prove you have no points on you licence if you hire a car though I don't bother with that any more as no one abroad asks for it :hee:

When we leave I won't be needing an Irish passport!

My grandmother comes from Germany. She moved straight from a concentration camp to the UK just after the last time the Germans ran Europe. So no, I won't be using her nationality for a passport.

Big spike in Irish passport applications

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-46030552

the best bit of the 5 live show this morning was hard line Brexiteers ringing in using anonymity saying they had got one "for their kids'


:joker:

I think you're underestimating how difficult it is to live abroad long-term no matter how in demand your skills are... at the end of the day, your right to reside in a country is up to the government of that country, not an employer. I know more than one person who has been "sent home" after a couple of years and had to live with their parents again, despite having been in full employment.

My stupid ancestry is all Scottish and you have to go back too many generations to find me Oirish roots (My dad's maternal grandmother was from ROI). :fist:

Both of my wife's grandparents on her Mum's side are Irish but I don't know if that's on any use to our kids? :think: ... They also both moved over to England in their 20's and had British passports etc. so I dunno if they even count as properly Irish.

:dance:

http://puu.sh/BTTdA/d41675dedb.jpg

Having never owned a passport, I wonder if I am neutral:joker:

Yes they are making money out of the rush

Perfect for you Jess

Thank you.

According to Ancestry DNA I am 1% Irish (which is a complete mystery to our family!). Not sure that would be enough for a passport...

My fella has a US passport, he studied here and works here now. He's also worked in mainland Europe. I suppose it all depends on which skills you can offer and luckily his are in demand.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/brexi...cid=spartandhp



The number of British citizens applying for Irish passports rose by 22% in 2018, Ireland’s foreign office said on Monday, more than doubling the total of annual applications since Britain voted to leave the European Union.
News, analysis and expert opinion as the UK gets closer to leaving the European Union
Almost 100,000 eligible Britons sought to hang onto their EU citizenship via a passport from their nearest neighbour this year, up from 81,000 last year and 46,000 in 2015, the year before the Brexit vote led to a sharp rise in applications.

No, it has to be parent or grandparent, If they moved to England in their 20s they were born in Ireland so will have Irish birth certs so your wife would definitely be eligible and maybe then that would stand as the parent with an Irish passport and your kids could get one, I dunno…. no harm in enquiring

Nope.