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Permission for non-EEA students on a full-time course that appears on the Interim List of Eligible Programmes (ILEP). Students register on Stamp 2, which permits limited part-time work, and eligible graduates can stay on under the Third Level Graduate Programme (Stamp 1G) to seek graduate-level work.
Ireland's premium employment permit, issued by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE) for in-demand occupations on the Critical Skills Occupations List. It has no labour-market needs test, allows immediate family reunification, and gives a fast track to Stamp 4 (long-term residence with full work rights) after two years.
DETE's broad-access work permit, covering occupations that are not on the Critical Skills list and not on the Ineligible List of Occupations. A labour-market needs test is normally required, meaning the role must first be advertised to EEA workers.
A DETE permit for transferring senior management, key personnel or trainees from an overseas branch of a multinational to its Irish operation. No labour-market needs test is required, but it is a temporary intra-corporate route rather than a settlement pathway.
Ireland's secure long-term residence. Long Term Residency is available after roughly five years (60 months) of employment-permit-based residence, granting a further five years' permission to work without a permit. Critical Skills permit holders reach Stamp 4 — full work and self-employment rights — much sooner, after two years.
A temporary scheme under bilateral arrangements that lets young people from partner countries fund an extended holiday in Ireland through casual work. Places are limited, applications are made from outside Ireland, and it is a non-settlement route that does not count toward naturalisation.
Ireland offers one of the most accessible citizenship-by-descent routes. A person with an Irish-born parent is generally an Irish citizen automatically; a person with an Irish-born grandparent can become a citizen by registering in the Foreign Births Register, administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs. No residence in Ireland is required.
Non-EEA nationals with enough reckonable residence can apply to the Minister for Justice for naturalisation, generally under the '5 in 9' rule: five years of reckonable residence in the last nine, including one year continuous immediately before applying. Ireland permits dual citizenship.
An open programme run by Immigration Service Delivery for non-EEA nationals with an innovative, high-potential start-up and access to at least the required minimum funding. Successful applicants and their immediate family receive residence permission (initially two years, then renewable), with eligibility for long-term residence after five years.
Routes for non-EEA family members to join a sponsor in Ireland. Ireland does not apply the EU Family Reunification Directive; instead it follows the Policy Document on Non-EEA Family Reunification, under which the outcome (including the Stamp granted and work rights) depends heavily on the sponsor's status.
