Originally Posted by
renault4
My wife, who was born in Ireland, and possesses a US passport was in the line for Non-EU passports at the Dublin passport control station. It was a long line and when she finally got to the station, the officer told her that as her US passport listed her country of birth as Ireland, she could have gone through the EU passport line.
First time I have heard of that, anyone else done this?
--p
The passport control person may have assumed your wife was an Irish citizen or had Irish legal residence status available to her by way of being a US citizen with Ireland listed as the birthplace.
When was she born and is her family name Irish-sounding?