Immigration Updates

01 December 2020

From 02 December 2020, customers renewing their Immigration Registration Permission will no longer need to submit their passport to have an immigration stamp attached by their Registration Office. 

This applies to renewals made in the Burgh Quay Registration Office in Dublin and renewals made in local Registration Offices at Garda Stations nationwide.

Full details about these changes are available in the two documents below.

Immigration Registration Permission Renewal: Update to procedure

Immigration Permission Renewal with online passport submission FAQs

• Pandemic requires the temporary suspension of in person citizenship ceremonies
• Applicants will instead sign an affidavit declaring loyalty to the State and be issued with their certificate of naturalisation
• eTax-clearance and eVetting to be introduced for citizenship applicants as part of Minister McEntee’s digital reform agenda to modernise the Justice Sector
  www.irishimmigration.ie/etax-clearance/

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Renewal of Temporary Residence Certificate

Who is entitled to a Temporary Residence Certificate (TRC)?

Any applicant who is currently in the International Protection process and is complying with the process is entitled to receive a TRC.

TRC will not be issued to anyone who;

• Has yet to complete their Section 15 interview.
• Has been invited to complete their Section 15 or Section 35 interview and has failed to turn up.
• Has yet to return their questionnaire (applicants who have been granted extensions will be issued a card until their extension date)
• Has evaded transfer under the Dublin process or evaded a deportation order.
• Has received International Protection from another European Union Member State (Inadmissible applicants).
   

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