Thank you - I just don't understand why non-visa required and visa required nationals are treated differently in this scenario. Is it simply because airlines are more likely to refuse travel for visa required nationals?

Hi all, curious to hear if anyone from a non-visa required country has travelled on an expired IRP recently? (covered by the latest extension) The immigration website suggests this is fine, and it shouldn't be an issue with airlines either (although I will check in advance as I know some have brough...

Fair point, although that hasn't been our personal experience to date. On a few occasions when INIS didn't stick to their own timeframe in the past, we simply contacted our local government TD and things were always resolved within a few days

Thank you for the info - I'm hoping things have improved since then, all of the documentation says it can take up to 6 months, and that's what they've mentioned in the correspondence. When we applied, they were only accepting application from de facto partners of Irish nationals due to Covid, which ...

Hi all - my partner and I applied for De Facto permission in April of this year. We received confirmation that it was being processed about a week later, but have had no further updates since (we have sent a few enquiries, but have just been told it can take up to six months to process). We have not...