Possible future discounts for those with Irish ancestry!

egnolive · Veteran Member

Possible future discounts for those with Irish ancestry!

Michele Erdvig · Host

Thanks for the link. I was reading about it. Although my Irish ancenstry is so diluted it is going to be hard to prove it.

Michele

Green Dragon · Guru

I saw that - and was also wondering how far back they would consider Irish ancestry. Mine's from the 17th century!!!

egnolive · Veteran Member

I'm lucky. My grandmother was born in Ireland.

It will be interesting to see, if they implement this plan, what they will accept for the discount.

Maggie117 · Guru

My grandmother was also born in Ireland...I'm going to work on getting an Irish passport...think that would be really nice to possess...

Michele Erdvig · Host

Maggie,

Get both!

Michele

egnolive · Veteran Member

Maggie,

I have Irish citizenship through my grandmother and an Irish passport.

You need to get the citizenship first. Its pretty easy as long as you have the proper records. Once you get that, its as easy as paying a fee and taking a picture to get the passport. If I remember correctly the entire process took about 6 months.

Good luck.

yesiree · Guru

We had a chat with a guy who went through the process for dual citizenship. It took a bit of effort to get the papers in order, but now he's thrilled to use it. You can have a listen at

http://irishfireside.com/2008/02/02/32-gaining-dual-citizenship/