Employment Permit Developments
Increase to Quota for Care Workers and Home carers The Minister for Enterprise Tourism and Employment Peter Burke last week announced that effective from the 10th of March 2025, an additional 1000 General Employment Permits have been added to the quota for care workers and carers in the home. This [...]
Eswatini, Lesotho & Nauru now visa required countries
The Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan has announced that effective from the 10th of March 2025 citizens of Eswatini, Lesotho and Nauru are required to an obtain entry visa before travelling to the Republic of Ireland. Temporary transitional arrangements will be implemented where persons have already booked their travel however [...]
Seasonal Employment Permits
The Employment Permits Act 2024 was enacted on the 2nd of September 2024, introducing a new Seasonal Employment Permit at the time. On the 19th of February 2025, the Seasonal Employment Permit program was formally commenced. What does this mean The Seasonal Employment Permit will allow non-EEA nationals to work [...]
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Over the past month, the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment have posted a number of updates regarding minimum remuneration requirements and quotas for employment permits. Here is a summary of the updates. Deferral of increase to Minimum Annual Remuneration In December 2023, the DETE announced a number of changes [...]
Transfer of Immigration Registrations to Immigration Service Delivery
The Minister for Justice has announced that from Monday 13th of January 2025, the responsibility for Irish Immigration Registrations will transfer fully from An Garda Síochána to the Immigration Service Delivery of the Department of Justice (ISD). What does this mean Up until 2020, registration of all Irish immigration [...]
Christmas Travel Confirmation Notice
Due to delays in issuing renewed Irish Residence Permits (IRP) cards by post, the Immigration Service Delivery have issued a Travel Confirmation Notice for the Christmas period. The notice allows non-EEA nationals to travel between the 2nd of December 2024 and 31st of January 2025 using expired IRP cards, provided [...]