Travel and IRP Expiry

[Lorenna]

Hi all,

I've booked a trip next year to visit my husbands family for 3 weeks. He won't have been home for a number of years now due to covid so we wanted to take a longer trip...and will hopefully be able to travel next year!

I only realised today however that his current IRP expires in less than 5 weeks after we are due to return from our trip.

My question is, will we have any issues re entering ireland when his IRP only will have 4-5 weeks validity left? We will be traveling together. I'll already have his appointment for renewal booked too.

Or instead...how early can we renew his permission? We will be gone for 3 weeks and he will have 4 weeks left on it. So if we were to renew early we would have to be doing it 9 weeks early. That's probably too early right? We live outside Dublin so no online renewal.

[littlerr]

You won’t have any issue as long as the card is valid. The earliest time you can renew the card is one month before expiry.