Post-Brexit passport surge is likely to reach 1m in 2019

The number of British and Northern Ireland applications for Irish passports looks set to continue its dramatic post-Brexit rise, the Department of Foreign Affairs has predicted.

Post-Brexit passport surge is likely to reach 1m in 2019

With year-to-date applications from Britain running 40% higher than the first nine months of 2015, an expected 115,205 will have been handled from the UK by year’s end.

That would represent a 15% increase over the 2015 total of just over 100,000 but the department estimates the figures will continue to grow.

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