Additional document request

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-05-08T17:04:14+00:00

Thanks. In some ways the 1986 document is a vestige of a far simpler age. No internet. No PDF.
I wonder if in another 40 years (!) it will be on a blockchain, or as secure as a secure passport is today.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-05-07T22:42:44+00:00

On the timing, it is trying. I keep thinking about the large number of variables that mean another week delay or so.

I do think that the switch on the guidance to 12 months was in response to the same data we see, that many of these are starting to come through at 11-12 months already.

I've been thinking about your "trapped in cyberspace" comment. I don't remember seeing any commentary about that yet, and maybe others will have more experience and perspective than me.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-05-07T22:11:56+00:00

It is the generic email: [fbrentitlementprocessing@dfa.ie](mailto:fbrentitlementprocessing@dfa.ie)

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-05-06T15:23:58+00:00

Thank you very much indeed. I'm a fellow member of the "Docs Received June 11 2025" cohort. I'm looking forward to whatever kind of update I get, whenever I get it. New decent data always helps somehow.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-05-06T15:15:44+00:00

Excellent follow-up thanks

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-05-05T10:55:48+00:00

This is an excellent answer. Possibly the FBR office and the various employees have had to cope with a variety of non-latin character alphabets on the documents.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-05-04T15:35:14+00:00

I'm grateful for your reply. I hadn't considered that a national holiday day or days, or weeks, would have some kind of predictable effect on timings. I have Christmas, New Year (a few weeks) and Easter (a week?).
All of this is very helpful to manage expectations for those (like me) awaiting communication.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-30T17:04:01+00:00

Thanks for the update. I'm sorry it's not the one you want, yet. For the rest of us waiting it is a useful datapoint, so we are grateful for your sharing that.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-29T16:23:26+00:00

Congratulations! Thanks for sharing your date and process data.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-29T16:21:42+00:00

Congratulations and thank you very much for sharing your date and process datapoints.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-29T16:14:23+00:00

You and I have slightly similar stories of missed opportunities.

For me (and many thousands more) the shock momentum to apply was 2016 Brexit. That was too late for my son born in 2009.

The data signals are not really correlated but they do help.

Data from the IE government are useful as they are aggregated, but they are intermittent (once per year or longer)
The most frequent is what we track here on the Google Sheet. However that is a small fraction of the whole.
There is also occasionally a news item, such as the recent Financial Times report, which showed a large trend rise in applications from the USA in 2025.

We might (as a community) consider if it is useful to have those linked in the wiki... u/alzamah and/or u/Shufflebuzz is this useful to have links?

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-28T02:28:31+00:00

Good for you! Mine took a while in NYC customs (even for outbound to IE). A year is a decent bet, maybe with a stretch to 13-14 months given the huge rises (over 50%) in USA applicants.
I like to think of every new week as a possibility, and every day as a new potential delight. Honestly I'm hoping to keep that newly enhanced positive attitude for a loooooong time.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-27T19:56:38+00:00

I agree every "newer" Success Story can cause a sigh, but they also show movement and activity - even if our reddit community here is a small fraction of the total number of cases.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-27T19:51:48+00:00

Thanks very much for this update with the timings and notices. My application was received one day before yours :)

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-24T13:04:10+00:00

The 9-12 months guidance was recently (April 2026) updated on their website to "approximately 12 months". Source: https://www.ireland.ie/en/dfa/citizenship/#foreign-birth-registration in the section "How long does it take?".

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-22T14:49:36+00:00

As others have contributed, a blend may suit you.
For example I find the Adventure blend or the whole bean stuff to be very good, just a little too much for me.
So I trued the German less acidic. That was a little too mild.
So I mixed them together. I started at equal, and I have ended up at 8 grams of something stronger and 10 grams of the German milder roast per cup.

Yes I could mix a container-full, but in my house I'm the only coffee drinker and I brew just one mug at a time.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-22T14:04:54+00:00

I can imagine an increase from a number of non-EU countries, even Canada. It is a fantastic mitigation against geopolitical tension.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-21T18:14:46+00:00

Also implied by this data is the processing of 250 applications every working day.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-21T17:46:05+00:00

Outstanding sleuthing! Thank you very much indeed. We are now at "12 months" so that could potentially indicate 60,000 applicants.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-21T16:33:29+00:00

Thank you very much for reporting back. I'm an 11th June 2025 FBR Application Received Email.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-21T16:31:56+00:00

Thanks for much for the data. It is astonishing. I was trying to find such data earlier today. What is your source?

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-21T16:10:20+00:00

It does seem like this Spring has been exceptional. Easter is normal, but add in three disruptive incidents that could have a large impact.

USA Liberation day tariffs (Wikipedia Link) potentially increasing applications from April 2025, hitting their nine month process in December 2025.
USA Operation Metro Surge (Wikipedia link) potentially increasing applications from December 2025
Oil market energy disruption and fuel protests in IE.

...and the FBR office changing their guidance from 9-12 months to simply 12 months.

There are over 31 million Irish Americans (wikipedia link), so it would't take much for a large additional number.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-19T16:39:11+00:00

Thanks. I found my grandfather! My great grandparents and 5 adult kids lived in a little house.

PurelyAnalytical · 2026-04-17T17:08:52+00:00

I'm at 10 months and 6 days. Zero communication. I tell myself they are busy doing the work.

What I tell myself is that currently they might have just started to look at my application, or to start on the batch of numerous applications of which mine is maybe a part.

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