<Li> provided that Irish citizens, in common with those from the Commonwealth, would be required to apply for naturalisation as British citizens rather than registration after five years' residence in the UK (three years if married or in a Civil Partnership with a British citizen). </Li> <Li> British subjects retained the right to apply for registration as a British citizen after five years' residence in the UK . </Li> <P> As a result of the above, there is generally no special access to British citizenship for Irish citizens . The facility for those born before 1949 to claim British subject status does not confer British citizenship, although it gives an entitlement to registration as such after five years in the UK . </P> <P> Irish citizens seeking to become British citizens are usually required to live in the UK and become naturalised after meeting the normal residence and other requirements, unless they can claim British citizenship by descent from a UK born or naturalised parent . An Irish citizen who naturalises as a British citizen does not automatically lose Irish citizenship . </P>

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