Strange Spot hoping for advice

[Bambi81]

Hi, I'm new here

I'm in quite an odd spot, I'm 31 years of age and was hoping to apply for the International experience visa

Now the problem, I'm a English born person holding a UK passport living in Ireland since I was 13 years of age, so even if I was young enough for the UK version of this visa I don't meet the residency requirements of being in the UK for 3 years

Do any of you guys here know would I be able to apply for the Irish version from Ireland, as I say i have a UK passport but it seems wrong I wouldn't be able to apply for either? I've searched and searched online but can find no answer.

If anybody has a certain answer that would be great

 

[amikety]

I've looked into this for another person who had a UK passport but was Irish by descent. I believe you have to have an Irish passport, so if you qualify for the Irish passport, you need to get that first.

http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/ireland-irlande/experience_canada_experience/index.aspx?lang=eng&view=d

You don't need to show you normally live in Ireland anymore.

They haven't updated the webpage for 2013 yet, so I guess there's more to come..... oh la la.