New Passport Process for Citizenship from the 1st January 2022
From 1 January 2022, new applicants for citizenship will not be required to submit their original passport with the initial application. Instead, they can provide [...]
Citizenship Ceremony Postponed
The citizenship ceremony scheduled to be held in the INEC in Killarney on December 13th 2021 is now postponed. All candidates scheduled to attend at [...]
Single Person Committee of Inquiry set up to review refusals of Irish Citizenship where National Security concerns arise
A Single Person Committee of Inquiry has been established where people, whose application for a naturalisation certificate (also known as Citizenship) was refused, in [...]
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 [...]