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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Topic started by: Summer18 on Tuesday 23 February 21 16:37 GMT (UK)
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Could some kind Roots Chat colleague please inform me did everyone who emigrated from Ireland to United states in 1910 have to make a prior application for passport before sailing?
I have been searching extensively for a passport for a lady who travelled from Derry/Londonderry in 1910. I have located her passenger list but felt that if I could locate a passport application it may allow additional information.
Thank you kind members for all information shared with me
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An Irish immigrant would not be eligible for a US passport.
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As an emigrant from Ireland she would have been a British citizen (unless she was married to a non-Briton, in which case at the time she would have automatically lost her British citizenship in favour of her husband's). See this guide, but the summary is that she wouldn't have needed a passport and is unlikely to have had one.
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/passports/
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My grandmother emigrated to the USA around that time from Ireland and had a British passport.
Have it here somewhere and will have a look for it.
From memory she renewed it about 1920 in British Consul in New York before returning to Ireland .