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Registering a kid for dual citizenship

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  • 11-05-2015 10:16pm
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    Kod-box
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    My girlfriend is having our first born in September, she is Canadian and I'm Irish. The kid will be born in Canada, but I'm just wondering do I have to register the birth in Ireland too or whats the protocol for getting him/her dual citizenship?


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    Avada
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    Kod-box wrote: »
    My girlfriend is having our first born in September, she is Canadian and I'm Irish. The kid will be born in Canada, but I'm just wondering do I have to register the birth in Ireland too or whats the protocol for getting him/her dual citizenship?

    If the child is born in Canada you will need to register them on the foreign births register. You can find full info on dfa.ie


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    lonestargirl
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    As the OP is Irish the child is automatically an Irish citizen. The foreign birth register would only be required the next generation down if the OP's grandchild wanted to claim citizenship.
    https://www.dfa.ie/passports-citizenship/citizenship/born-abroad/registering-a-foreign-birth/

    My son is a dual US/Irish citizen through being born in the US. Only a copy of my passport was required along with his birth cert for his passport.


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    Avada
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    lonestargirl wrote: »
    As the OP is Irish the child is automatically an Irish citizen. The foreign birth register would only be required the next generation down if the OP's grandchild wanted to claim citizenship.
    https://www.dfa.ie/passports-citizenship/citizenship/born-abroad/registering-a-foreign-birth/

    My son is a dual US/Irish citizen through being born in the US. Only a copy of my passport was required along with his birth cert for his passport.

    You are correct, its been a while since I've dealt with this stuff.


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    IvyTheTerrible
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    My son was born in France, I rang the Irish embassy at the time and they told me he is automatically Irish, there is no registration required, if one of his parents is Irish.


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    zeffabelli
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    Kod-box wrote: »
    My girlfriend is having our first born in September, she is Canadian and I'm Irish. The kid will be born in Canada, but I'm just wondering do I have to register the birth in Ireland too or whats the protocol for getting him/her dual citizenship?

    You will have to establish paternity before the child obtains anything through you.

    Are you in Canada now and will you be there for the birth to acknowledge paternity and sign the documents. Otherwise there is blank space in the father's details.

    The child's citizenship will depend on how yours was obtained.


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    Tabnabs
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    OP contact the Irish Embassy in Canada, they deal with these issues regularly and will tell you exactly what to do.


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    the_monkey
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    lonestargirl wrote: »
    As the OP is Irish the child is automatically an Irish citizen. The foreign birth register would only be required the next generation down if the OP's grandchild wanted to claim citizenship.
    https://www.dfa.ie/passports-citizenship/citizenship/born-abroad/registering-a-foreign-birth/

    My son is a dual US/Irish citizen through being born in the US. Only a copy of my passport was required along with his birth cert for his passport.

    That all you needed ?

    I needed my long form birth cert, passport aswell as his own local documents ..


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    zeffabelli
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    the_monkey wrote: »
    That all you needed ?

    I needed my long form birth cert, passport aswell as his own local documents ..

    Yeah. I needed everything too, parents marriage cert, long form birth certs, everything...


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    lonestargirl
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    I didn't need any of those documents, but I did apply for the passport from within Ireland (he travelled here on his US one).


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    the_monkey
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    Looks like I´ll need to do that, I seem to have lost my long form birth cert and I have my second (and last) kid on the way ...

    cant get long form birth cert replaced .


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    jester77
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    Having done this, original long form birth certs of Irish parent and child. Translation may also be required depending on where the child was born and the language of the birth cert. A copy of the childs national ID card and fill in the relevant application form. I think it costs around €16 and the passport is valid for 3 years.


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    uck51js9zml2yt
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    My kids were born here but also have Slovak passports.
    We just needed to send our marriage cert and mine and the kids birth certs over which were translated and my wife's documents for them to be registered.

    It gives the kids free health insurance till they are 18 which has proved useful with waiting lists here being so long.
    We also got a payment from the Slovak government but that's now tightened up:)


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