Sinnott Solicitors contributed to the following article published by The Financial Times:
The number of Americans seeking Irish citizenship through ancestry jumped 63 per cent last year, as the Trump administration’s harsh rhetoric and policies fuelled demand for “plan B” passports. Official figures shared with the FT show US applications to Ireland’s Foreign Births Register (FBR) — a citizenship route for people with Irish grandparents or parents — increased from 11,601 in 2024 to 18,910 in 2025, the highest figure since digital records began in 2013.
Carol Sinnott, principal at Irish law firm Sinnott Solicitors, said many of her US clients were seeking a “plan B” in a “safer and less hostile society”, adding the Trump regime had made obtaining an Irish passport “a matter of priority”. “Many US citizens feel that their country no longer reflects their values,” she said, adding that she expected the upward trend in applications to continue.
