What are the current rules about continuous residence prior to application?

What are the current rules about continuous residence prior to application?2022-11-25T13:14:38+00:00

Section 15C of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 makes it very clear that in the year prior to your application you have to be continuously resident.

A decision of the Superior Court in a case called Roderick Jones is clarified that the minister can have a policy to allow reasonable absences from the state and we know that the current policy says you are entitled to a six-week absence from the state but that they will in exceptional circumstances consider an extension of that six weeks policy in exceptional circumstances.

Those exceptional circumstances have never really been tested before the courts and the veracity of the six-week policy also hasn’t really been tested before the courts and circumstances where people have to work for example or travel for business, but what we would say again is to try and err on the side of caution and try and keep your absences under six weeks in the year prior to applying.

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