Seven Important Things You Must do to Ensure that your Citizenship Application is Complete and Accurate.
The Citizenship Application Support Service is a project of the New Communities Partnership and is aimed at applicants intending to apply for naturalisation as Irish Citizens.
1. Pre-application preparations:
Ensure that you download the application form and the guidance notes to the application beforehand and start putting together the documents requested in the notes well ahead in preparation for your application.
2. Documentation:
Ensure that copies of your birth certificate, marriage certificate (if applicable) and the bio-data page of your national passport are duly certified. Translated copies of these documents must also be certified.
3. Using the residency calculator:
Ensure that the date used in calculating your residency is the same as the date of the declaration on your application form.
4. Criminal offence:
Ensure that you do not conceal any criminal offence, even if it is minor and provide as much detail in the section provided for additional information on the form so as to ensure that you utilise the opportunity to give your own account of events.
5. Declaration:
Ensure that you complete the declaration page that is relevant to your application and that your spouse completes the relevant declaration section if your application is based on marriage to an Irish citizen. This declaration must only be made before a Notary Public, Commissioner for oaths, Solicitor or a Peace Commisioner.
6. Application Fee:
Ensure that you enclose the application fee of €175.00 made payable in the form of a bank draft or postal order to the Secretary General of the Department of Justice. This fee is non refundable and must accompany every application.
7. Application Assistance:
If you require assistance completing the application form or have any queries related to making an application for citizenship you may contact the New Communities Partnership's Citizenship Application Support Service (CASS).
Disclaimer
New Communities Partnership does not guarantee the outcome of any application and can only provide information that may be of useful in the making of a citizenship application. This list is not exhaustive.
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The Citizenship Application Support Service is supported by the Office for the Promotion of Migrant Integration