{"question":{"passport":"SEN","destination":"IRL","entryDate":"2026-09-12"},"dateBasis":"reference-date","status":"conditional","headline":"e-Visa, stay set by the visa","requirement":{"kind":"evisa","message":"Before you travel: you need an e-visa."},"stay":{"kind":"SET_BY_VISA","phrasing":"How long you may stay is set by your visa."},"conditions":[],"caveat":null,"source":{"documentId":"immigration-act-2004-revised","url":"https://revisedacts.lawreform.ie/eli/2004/act/1/revised/en/html","passage":"(2) A non-national coming by air or sea from a place outside the State shall, on arrival in the State, present himself or herself to an immigration officer and apply for a permission. (3) Subject to section 2(2), an immigration office … (e) that the non-national, not being exempt, by virtue of an order under section 17, from the requirement to have an Irish visa, is not the holder of a valid Irish visa; (f) that the non-national is the subject of— (i) a deportation order (within the meaning of the Act of 1999), (ii) an ex","explanation":"These two subsections state the requirement and its converse in the Act itself: section 4(2) requires every non-national arriving from outside the State to apply for a permission, and section 4(3)(e) lets the officer refuse that permission where the non-national is not exempt, by virtue of an order under section 17, from the visa requirement and holds no visa. The section 17 order is the Visas Order 2014, whose Article 3 is an inclusion list declaring only the classes that are exempt, so a nationality no paragraph of Article 3 reaches — and a British protected person, a stateless person or a refugee so far as their own passport is concerned — is left with the requirement this passage imposes.","publisher":"This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Immigration Act 2004. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law."},"checkedAt":"2026-08-29","snapshotAsOf":"2026-09-10","dataVersion":"4f66864a7d4f8a08b6c8c7e446d7f16addcd9303","upcomingChange":null,"alternatives":[],"scope":{"covers":["recorded entry requirement","recorded stay allowance"],"notEstablished":["personal admission decision","work permission","residence rights","tax position","individual eligibility for every condition"],"passportType":"ordinary"}}