What Heritage Passport does

Fewer mistakes. Faster progress. Less money spent.

A citizenship claim is won on paper: the right records, from the right offices, proving the right line. This is how the work actually gets done, and what it costs when it does.

Find my citizenship path — free

Free to start. Nothing to cancel.

Mission Control in Heritage Passport on an Ireland Foreign Birth Registration case. It opens on the one next step, inviting the immediate family, then moves past the current blocker to the five application stages and how many of the case's records are ready. — An Ireland case, open in Mission Control.

One shared record of the family

Stop re-explaining your family to everyone.

Everyone works from one tree that shows who each person is, how they connect and which record each person needs.

Each person shows the record their part of the claim needs
Relatives edit the same line, not their own copy
Gaps are named, not discovered late

See how a family works one case

One line. One version of it.

The Ancestry Citizenship Tree in Heritage Passport on an Ireland case: the applicant, the parent and the Irish-born grandmother in one qualifying line, each person's facts marked complete, with the record still to order for each of them. — One line from you back to the Irish-born grandmother, and the record each person still needs.

Vital records retrieval

Every record request, printed and ready to sign.

The Signature Filing Kit is included with Pro and Circle after your tree and packet review: forms filled in from your tree, addressed envelopes, a numbered checklist, and payment instructions. You pay each office directly and add postage.

Forms filled in from your tree
Envelopes addressed to each office
Exact office fees and payment instructions

How record requests are prepared

Review, sign, and send to the office.

Outer branded envelope addressed to you

Heritage Passport

Jane Smith
London, UK

Family lead · kit 01

Current government form with pre-filled data fields

Official record request

Full name of applicant

Date of birth

Office use

Place of registration

Relationship to subject

Certified copies

Signature of applicant

Form VR-1 · rev. 2026

Numbered checklist for every signature

Numbered checklist

Kit 01 · 4 steps

1Check the form and sign where indicated
2Use a notary only if the form requires one
3Enclose your payment and add postage
4Seal and mail your request

Exact government fee, payee, and payment instructions

You pay the records office

Payment instructions · kit 01

Government fee payable to

[Exact payee]

[Exact government fee]

Payment methodUse the method the form requires.

Enclose your payment

Agency-addressed envelope: add your postage

Your return address

Add your
postage

[Correct Agency Name]

Vital records office
[Correct department address]

Concise signature/notary instruction card

Signature & notary
instruction card

Check the form and its signature instructions.
Sign before a notary only if the form requires it.
Enclose your payment, add postage, and mail.

Notary
seal
if required

What it costs, before you commit

Spend less, without doing it alone.

See every record you need, the office that issues it and what it charges, before you spend anything.

Heritage Passport is a technology platform, not a law firm, and does not give legal advice.

Government fees shown at cost, never marked up
Shared records bought once for the whole family
Attorney work scoped and priced before it starts

Estimate your own case

Help where it counts. Not a meter that never stops.

The Heritage Passport cost calculator, configured for an Irish claim and showing the itemised government record fees the case will cost before any account is created. — The cost estimate, before you create an account.

The case, always current

Always know the one thing to do next.

Open your case and it shows the one next action, what's blocking it, and where every record request stands with the office that holds it.

One next action, chosen for you
Blockers named separately from actions
Every request tracked to the office holding it

Look inside a live case

Progress you can see, not progress you hope for.

The Documents view in Heritage Passport on an Ireland Foreign Birth Registration case: the grandparent born in Dingle, County Kerry, with each record the claim needs, its status, and the action that moves it, such as ordering the birth certificate or adding marriage details to the tree. — Every record, where it stands, and what moves it next.

Heritage Guide

Ask about your case. See the source.

Ask a question from anywhere in your case. Heritage Guide checks your family line, record list, and current step before answering. You can open the source behind the answer or ask a person when the question needs judgment.

Start your case

Included with Heritage Passport and paid memberships. Question limits apply.

Heritage Guide open over Mission Control in a paid Ireland case, with the answer, reviewed source, and next action visible. — Product screenshot · Ireland case

Heritage Guide on a phone showing a paid member's question, answer, reviewed source, and next action. — Product screenshot · Ireland case