I’m in a somewhat similar position as a British citizen with an Irish grandparent—I’m entitled to dual citizenship. I got the passport even though I live in the UK—the option value of being able to easily move to the EU is valuable. Given recent developments in the USA, I would think that the option value of having a plan B is even higher.
Relatedly, anyone with a single grandparent who was an Irish citizen born on Irish soil can get Irish citizenship, so there’s probably a good number of Americans who qualify. The application process was cheap and relatively easy. At the time it was slow—there was a long post-Brexit backlog—but that may have eased now.
This is my situation as well. I am an Irish citizen because one of my grandparents was born in Northern Ireland. I have never been to any part of the island of ireland (would like to one day), and not have either of my parents. Now my son can also apply for Irish cirizenship through me.
Weirdly, my son could not apply for British citizenship through me, even though I am a British citizen who spent most of my life in the UK, because of laws about place of birth. Its not relevant though because he gets UK citizenship through his place of brith and/or his mother so no issues. Just weird that I can grant citizenship of a country I have never been to but not my home country.
I agree the process of applying for Irish citizenship is really smooth. If that is any indication of the rest of the country’s bearocracy then its amazing. A colleage was applying for a visa to bring his wife into the UK, which we calculated was more than 100 times more complicated than me applying for Irish citizenship.
I’m in a somewhat similar position as a British citizen with an Irish grandparent—I’m entitled to dual citizenship. I got the passport even though I live in the UK—the option value of being able to easily move to the EU is valuable. Given recent developments in the USA, I would think that the option value of having a plan B is even higher.
Relatedly, anyone with a single grandparent who was an Irish citizen born on Irish soil can get Irish citizenship, so there’s probably a good number of Americans who qualify. The application process was cheap and relatively easy. At the time it was slow—there was a long post-Brexit backlog—but that may have eased now.
This is my situation as well. I am an Irish citizen because one of my grandparents was born in Northern Ireland. I have never been to any part of the island of ireland (would like to one day), and not have either of my parents. Now my son can also apply for Irish cirizenship through me.
Weirdly, my son could not apply for British citizenship through me, even though I am a British citizen who spent most of my life in the UK, because of laws about place of birth. Its not relevant though because he gets UK citizenship through his place of brith and/or his mother so no issues. Just weird that I can grant citizenship of a country I have never been to but not my home country.
I agree the process of applying for Irish citizenship is really smooth. If that is any indication of the rest of the country’s bearocracy then its amazing. A colleage was applying for a visa to bring his wife into the UK, which we calculated was more than 100 times more complicated than me applying for Irish citizenship.