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Ireland Foreign Births Register — grandparent route

for Ireland

Official name: Foreign Births Register

Trace your Irish line, register your birth abroad, and prove your claim — generation by generation.

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This is the Foreign Births Register route — for descendants born outside Ireland who are not yet Irish citizens. Already a citizen through the register or otherwise? The Irish passport program is the next step.

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The document set at a glance

12
Documents in the set
7
Required
0
Conditional
5
PassVault recommended

What you will need

the program’s definitive document set, by category
Lineage
Birth certificateRequiredOfficial requirement
Anchor ancestor
Certified copy
Death certificateConditionalOfficial requirementPassVault recommended
Anchor ancestor
Certified copy
Marriage certificateConditionalOfficial requirementPassVault recommended
Anchor ancestor
Certified copy
Birth certificateRequiredOfficial requirement
Principal applicant
Long formCertified copyApostilleTranslation
Marriage name changeConditionalOfficial requirementPassVault recommended
Principal applicant
Certified copyName bridge
Birth certificateRequiredOfficial requirement
Intermediate ancestor
Certified copyApostilleTranslation
Death certificateConditionalOfficial requirementPassVault recommended
Intermediate ancestor
Certified copyApostilleTranslation
Marriage certificateConditionalOfficial requirementPassVault recommended
Intermediate ancestor
Certified copyApostilleTranslation
Proof
Proof of addressRequiredOfficial requirement
Principal applicant
Identity
Identity documentRequiredOfficial requirement
Principal applicant
Execution
Passport photo setRequiredOfficial requirement
Principal applicant
Fbr application formRequiredOfficial requirement
Principal applicant
FBR Verification Kit
$10 service

Not sure your line was registered?

A Heritage Passport verifier checks the Foreign Births Register for you and emails the result after the human-performed lookup completes. The service fee is $10; the result is never instant and never a guess.

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See where your line stands

Answer a few questions about your Ireland line and get an honest read on your eligibility — free, before any membership.

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Program names, requirements, and counts on this page render directly from seeded program knowledge — nothing here is estimated or invented.