Did you know there’s still a loophole to bypass Brexit?

Posted by Poch1212@reddit | AskABrit | View on Reddit | 38 comments

British citizens can live freely in Ireland, and EU citizens can do the same.

If a Brit moves to Ireland and applies for Irish citizenship after a few years—voilà, EU rights restored.

Meanwhile, EU citizens can still move to the UK with any restrictions if they apply to irish passport after living in Ireland.

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afcote1@reddit

I know. I actually thought about it. But I don’t know what id do in Ireland for 5 years

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I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS@reddit

Ah yes, just move to Ireland. Simples. Never mind the housing and cost of living crisis that's worse than here.

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Im a beekeeper with Irish citizenship. I was talking to an Irish beekeeper on reddit once and I was saying how I want to buy land but can't locally due to cost of land. They said its the sane in Ireland so I googled it and you could buy like a cottage on the coast in Ireland with two acres of land for something like €300k. I pointed out that 2 acres of land had just sold near me for £1.2m.

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I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS@reddit

That's all very well, but Ireland's economy is even more Dublin-centric than ours is London-centric. A cottage on the coast isn't going to be much use for someone moving over there hoping to support themselves, so there's a reason it's cheap.

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cohanson@reddit

That's generally true, but the problem is that the cottage on the coast of Ireland is likely 200+ years old, with tens of thousands of euro needed for repairs, an energy rating that will leave you with icicles hanging off your tits whilst the lovely Atlantic breeze blows your eyeballs through the back of your head, no internet connection, and a local shop that only sells bread, cheese and yesterday's newspaper.

Oh, and then you'll get into a bidding war with a developer and end up spending €850,000 on it.

The scenery is nice, though.

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Southernbeekeeper@reddit

But all that's true of the UK too but it would start at £1m.

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Pizzagoessplat@reddit

And healthcare. One of the biggest things I miss is the NHS

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Miss_IAmAlwaysRight@reddit

So Ireland is going to be willing to give out over hundred thousands of new passports to any Tom that applies for it? 🤔

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elom44@reddit

Well there was an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 additional passports issued to people in the UK of Irish descent due to Brexit. So yes.

If my granny had been Irish instead of Scottish I’d have applied for one too.

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Miss_IAmAlwaysRight@reddit

Apply for a Scottish passport instead 😂 I have to say JOKE, because people will reply to this as if I'm being serious. 💀

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Quetzalchello@reddit

Given you gotta move to Ireland and live there a number of years... No, that's not a loophole.

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trysca@reddit

I lived 4,5 years in Sweden then decided actually the UK is much nicer ! I'd happily retire to Ireland it's gorgeous

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Quetzalchello@reddit

That's cool. I couldn't move to Ireland myself at my age just to live there long enough to get an EU passport. 🤷‍♂️

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TheDarkestStjarna@reddit

Yes, I knew that but wouldn't say it's a loophole.

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caiaphas8@reddit

Just 5 years and €2000

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Pizzagoessplat@reddit

Yes, I thought this was common knowledge.

I'm a duel citizen and it takes five years and a lot of paper work to achieve citizenship through neutralisation.

After you have citizenship and it takes two more years for the application to be processed (and that's if they're happy with your paperwork) you have the right to apply for the passport

Its not as simple as live in Ireland and you're just given a passport. There's so many people here, in Ireland that think once you have citizenship you automatically get the passport. I have the same right to apply for an Irish passport as an Irish person.

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nibor@reddit

Yes, my mum prepared for this loophole by moving to the UK from Ireland and having me over 50 years ago. Always thinking ahead that woman

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Smug010@reddit

It works if your grandparents planned this out as well. Thanks Grandad.

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spectrumero@reddit

It's not a loophole, and it's a ballache: to do this you're going to have to uproot your life and move to Ireland for several years (minimum 5 years), and go through the process to get Irish citizenship, and pay around 1000 eur in fees.

If you want to move to the EU it's far better just to get a visa in the country you actually want to live in, rather than delaying your plans by 5 years in Ireland. If you don't have an intention to move to an EU country, then it's probably a lot easier to deal with the future ETIAS system and not worry about it.

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Poch1212@reddit (OP)

Just to get a visa 🤣, like its easy if you donr have qualifications

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spectrumero@reddit

If you don't have qualilfications, you're probably going to struggle mightily to move to Ireland too due to the costs of moving there.

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MonsieurGump@reddit

OP maybe thinks it’s all tarmac and potatoes?

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mediumsizemonkey@reddit

What other things are there?

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SnooRegrets8068@reddit

Young offenders was good.

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iani63@reddit

Road bowling

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PlasticPassage@reddit

Hurling

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Inside-Judgment6233@reddit

Went to Galway in the early 2010s for an university event. I was (as a visible ethnic minority) the only one that didn’t get dog’s abuse for being British.

Even the girl of Irish origin got it.

Is only one anecdote so can’t say how valid it is as a measure

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VodkaMargarine@reddit

It was all just 4D chess from the UK government to recolonise Ireland

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Prestigious-Gold6759@reddit

Interesting

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Southernbeekeeper@reddit

So what you're saying is that if we move to an EU country and happy for citizenship we can then use our citizenship to live in other EU countries?