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The Irish Free State was created in 1922 as a dominion of the British Commonwealth, modelled explicitly on the Dominion of Canada.At the time, dominion status was a limited form of independence and while the Free State Constitution referred to "citizens of the Irish Free State", the rights and obligations of such citizens were expressed to apply only "within the limits of the jurisdiction of ...
Consular and Passport Division is responsible for the administration of consular services and the issuing of passports to Irish citizens. Political Division is responsible for international political issues and manages Ireland's participation in the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy .
As of September 2024, Irish citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 191 countries and territories, ranking the Irish passport 3rd in the world according to the Henley Passport Index. [1] Since Brexit and as of 2024, Irish citizens are the only nationality in the world with the right to live and work in both the European Union and ...
The number of first-time passport applications from Northern Ireland and Great Britain was 100,000 out of over 1.15 million total applications. Record year for Irish passports with 1,080,000 ...
The U.S. Department of State announced the opening of the online passport renewal system for American travelers on Sept. 18, 2024. Instead of printing a paper application and mailing it with a ...
No national identity card. Ireland issues an optional passport card, only if the applicant already has a valid passport booklet, or gets one in the same application. Identity documentation is optional €35 (standalone) €25 (as part of a passport application) 5 years (or less, matched to passport) Department of Foreign Affairs: 14 October 2021
Not everyone can renew their passports online. Applicants must be 25 years or older, and the passport they are renewing must have been valid for 10 years and issued between 2009 and 2015.
Only Irish passports are not obliged by EU law to contain fingerprint information in their chip. With the exception of passports issued by Denmark and Ireland, all EU citizens applying for a new ordinary passport or passport renewal by 28 August 2006 (for facial images) and 28 June 2009 (for fingerprints) should have been biometrically enrolled.