The number of British people who applied for Irish passports has shot up since the EU referendum. Figures released by Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs show that in June the numbers were up by 9% on 2015. But by November the increase had risen to 106%, and passport offices in London and Edinburgh had received 6,443 applications compared with just over 3,000 the year before.
The UK’s decision to leave the European Union also fuelled an 80-fold increase in the number of British Sephardic Jews seeking Portuguese citizenship under a law intended to make amends for their ancestors’ expulsion from the Iberian peninsula more than 500 years ago.
Have you applied for a new passport since the referendum vote? Where did you apply to and why? Have you had success in getting it? What about other members of your family? Have you thought about moving too? Share your stories.
