Postponed foreign birth registrations leave 27,000 people in limbo

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Tue, 04 Aug, 2020 - 14:34
Aoife Moore Political Correspondent

Over 27,000 people have been left "in limbo" waiting for Foreign Birth applications to be processed.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has stopped processing Foreign Birth Registrations (FBRs) due to the Covid-19 pandemic, amid a flurry of new applications linked to Brexit.

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