Apply for Irish citizenship

Anyone who has a parent or grandparent born in either Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland can get an Irish passport by applying to your nearest Irish embassy or consulate. The procedure is :

You need to have the following :-
1) For the Irish grandparent, Irish birth certificate and marriage license to whoever was the other grandparent of the applicant.
2) For the parent (child of the Irish grandparent) birth certificate and marriage license to your other parent.
3) For you: birth certificate

ALL of the above documents must have complete details that prove the connection. In other words, the birth certificate must show the names, dates of birth and places of birth of both your parents, so that they can be conclusively identified to be the same person mentioned on the marriage license and their own birth certificate. Irish documents seem to include these details automatically, but in the U.S., you may have to contact the Vital Statistics Bureau in the state of birth to get an official copy containing more details.
ALL of the documents must be official, i.e., must bear the raised stamp of the issuing agency.

To obtain these official full long form certificates see www.ulsterancestry.com/documents/

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