Post-Brexit - Giving birth in Northern Ireland?
Hello!
I am 15 weeks pregnant and still very sad about Brexit. I want my child to have the freedom to travel and live in Europe.
I am currently researching how to do all midwife and hospital care in London. My plan is then to go Northern Ireland to give birth and therefore enable them to have an Irish passport but also be in the UK.
Has anyone done this yet? If so, how did you plan/do it?
Thanks!
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Is it automatic citizenship? We considered travel to France for similar reasons (I have a house there) but citizenship isn’t automatically granted as we aren’t normally resident there
"Northern Ireland and Irish Citizenship,Since 1 January 2005, if you are born in Northern Ireland, you can claim Irish citizenship if your parent (or parents) are either British or Irish citizens, or one of them has lived on the island of Ireland for at least 3 out of the 4 years immediately before your birth."
https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/moving-country/irish-citizenship/your-right-to-irish-citizenship/#:~:text=Northern%20Ireland%20and%20Irish%20Citizenship,-The%20Irish%20Nationality&text=Since%201%20January%202005%2C%20if,years%20immediately%20before%20your%20birth.
so. If your British your fine.
You can't actually do this.
The NHS in NI isn't the NHS in the UK. They're devolved, you would need to move here, get a GP, get a health and social care number, have an address and then get in contact with a midwife and live here for a period of time. I had my sister's friend over visiting us last month and as she's from England, she has to provide health insurance until we fought for ages and then they lost all her blood samples because the lab refused to do the bloods until she had a NI government number. The NI system doesn't like non-NI people.
It would take you a few months..
Then you would have to register the baby with your local council in NI. This is a lot more paperwork than just flying over and going into labour in Belfast. And everything in NI is done here too, so you child would need to come back all the time for paperwork... This is so much more work than you think.
ahh thank you! This is helpful!
And just to say, the Irish passport is a right that the people of NI fought for in spite of the English.
To have an Irish passport is a privilege, this nationality is one that deserves your respect.
I understand you're sad about Brexit and this passport is an extra you'd like for your child and you likely don't know much about NI, so you don't realise the offense you have caused but this is a right people on this island died for.
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