Passports

Amazing time - arrived home to find the Special Delivery package from the Irish Embassy in London waiting for me. Opening it, it contained my brand new, freshly printed Irish

My Irish Passort Application is now at Stage 6 of 6. Status: Received on 13/07/2016 Application No. XXXXXXXXXX is at Stage 6 of 6: Your new Passport has

My Irish passport application is now at Stage 3 of 6. Status: Received on 13/07/2016 Application No. XXXXXXXXXX is at Stage 3 of 6: Your Application is scheduled

The July figures for Irish Passport applications are out, and as expected there has been a massive spike in the applications from NI and from GB. The NI figures are

My Irish passport application is now at Stage 2 of 6. Received on 13/07/2016 Application No. XXXXXXXXXX is at Stage 2 of 6: Your documentation is being processed.

There is a definite spike in the number of applications for Irish passports from British people. But we won't the full extent of this for some time. The Belfast Telegraph

Discovered this page on the Irish government's Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade website that shows the rolling statistics for passport applications. Statistics on Irish Passport Applications from DFA.IE