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Allows you to travel to Ireland for up to 90 days for a short course of study. If you are from a visa-required country, this visa is mandatory.
Required if your study programme lasts more than 3 months. Typically leads to Stamp 2 or Stamp 2A permission.
Some PhD and research students can bring immediate family members during their studies if they can demonstrate sufficient financial support.
Planning a holiday, short break, or family visit to Ireland? A Short Stay 'C' Tourist Visa lets you visit for less than 90 days. If you are a citizen of a visa-required country, you must apply before travelling.
A Short Stay 'C' Business Visa allows travel to Ireland for up to 90 days for business activities, conferences, events, or employment for 14 consecutive days or less.
If you want to join a family member in Ireland and you are a non-EU/EEA and non-Swiss national, you will need to apply for the relevant permission. This is one of the most common questions asked by international students from Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and other non-EU countries.
A step-by-step guide for non-EU international students who want to bring family to Ireland after graduation.
In most cases, non-EU students studying in Ireland on a Stamp 2 student permission cannot immediately bring dependents such as a spouse, partner, children, or parents. However, there are important pathways available after graduation and employment in Ireland.
As an international student, study full-time at a recognised Irish institution, work part-time during studies, and gain international education and work experience. During this stage, dependents are generally not permitted for most undergraduate and master's students.
After completing your degree, you may qualify for Ireland's post-study work visa. This allows graduates to work full-time, search for skilled employment, and apply for a long-term employment permit. Graduates may receive up to 2 years of post-study work rights.
Once you obtain a skilled job offer, you can apply for a Critical Skills Employment Permit (CSEP) or General Employment Permit (GEP). The Critical Skills Employment Permit is the fastest and most popular route for international graduates who want to bring their family to Ireland.
After obtaining a valid work permit and Stamp 1 immigration permission, you may become eligible to sponsor your spouse or civil partner, dependent children, and in some cases, dependent parents. Eligibility depends on your employment permit type, salary, financial stability, and accommodation arrangements.
International graduates working in high-demand sectors often qualify for the Critical Skills Employment Permit, which unlocks faster family reunification.
Answers to the most common questions about Ireland's Short Stay 'C' Visa process.
If you are a visa required national then you must make an application for a visa prior to travelling to the State. Unless you have an in date EUFAM card, or a BIVS visa.
You can apply for a Short Stay 'C' visa up to 3 months before your date of travel to Ireland.
When filling in your information on the online application form:
You must make your visa application from the country where you are ordinarily resident, i.e. the country where you live. Requests to make a visa application from any other country (e.g. a country that you are visiting while on holiday) will not be accepted.
You are required to show:
The Visa Officer will assess the information you have given and must be satisfied:
The visa officer will also assess any other issue they consider relevant. It is your responsibility to satisfy the visa officer that the visa should be granted. The visa officer may make a decision on your application, without letting you know before the decision is made, that he or she is not satisfied that a visa should be granted to you.
Yes, you will have to submit documents in support of your application.
The document requirements are outlined for short stay applications. These are requirements for all applicants. You will need to provide additional documents, depending on your circumstances or Reason for Travel.
If you find that you cannot submit a document requested, you should provide an explanation as to why you cannot provide it, and any other documents for consideration by the visa officer.
Important: Do not include false or misleading information or documents in your application. If you do, your application may be refused. In some circumstances, you may not be allowed to appeal the visa decision and may be blocked from getting an Irish visa for 5 years.
DOCUMENTS MUST BE ORIGINAL
We do not
accept photocopies (except where stated).
Letters from companies, universities, schools, colleges, and so on, must be on official headed paper abnd show the organisation's:
Documents must be translated & certified
You must provide a full and certified translation into the
English or Irish language of any documents not in English or
Irish. Send us both the original documents and the certified
translations, read here certified translations of documents.
The validity normally starts from the date the visa was granted and expires 90 days after. In some circumstances it may be shorter — the visa officer determines this and you cannot appeal the validity period decision. You can only travel between the dates printed on the visa.
You may need to provide further additional documents depending on the purpose of your travel here.
Different embassies and visa offices will take different lengths
of time to process different types of visa applications. These
waiting times can change and you may check with the embassy or
visa office, which is processing your application, for
information on their current waiting times.
You can check the current waiting times at the Dublin Visa
Office.
We will return marriage, birth and death certificates to you
after we process your application.
If there are other documents you want returned, type or write a
list of the documents you want and:
NOTE: You must includew the original documents. Do not only send photocopies
The validity normally starts from the date the visa was granted and expires 90 days after. In some circumstances it may be shorter — the visa officer determines this and you cannot appeal the validity period decision. You can only travel between the dates printed on the visa.
Yes. Please refer to Extra conditions for Under 18’s.
If your application is successful and you are permitted to enter Ireland then you are required to fully obey the conditions of your visa. In summary this means that
Your refusal notification will tell you if you can appeal the decision or not.
No — an Irish visit visa does not permit entry to the UK for those who require a UK visa. However, under the British Irish Visa Scheme (BIVS), certain Chinese nationals living in China and Indian nationals living in India may travel to Northern Ireland and other parts of the UK using a BIVS-endorsed Irish visa.
This programme allows nationals of certain countries who have entered the UK on a UK short stay visa to travel to Ireland without an Irish visa, using the remaining time on their UK leave. You must have lawfully entered the UK before travelling to Ireland under this programme.
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