Backlog forces Croatian woman to fly home to apply for daughter's passport

Sanja Mijalkovic said she has to vacate the rental property she has been sharing with her partner and child in Dublin and had hoped to secure an Irish passport for her daughter.

A Croatian woman is having to fly to her home country from Dublin, along with her baby, this week to secure a passport for the child — due to difficulties accessing an Irish passport here.

Sanja Mijalkovic said she has to vacate the rental property she has been sharing with her partner and child on Wednesday and had hoped to secure an Irish passport for her daughter, born last June, so they could return to Croatia for a time until her partner sources new accommodation in Dublin.