Short Stay 'C' Business Visa

Conditions you must meet

• Up to 90 days for business activities — meetings, negotiating or signing agreements

  A short stay ‘C’ business visa allows you to travel to Ireland for up to 90 days for activities related to your job, including to: Attend meetings Negotiate or sign agreements or contracts Work for 14 days or less.

• No work of any kind, paid or unpaid, for 15 days or longer

  Work in any way (paid or unpaid) for 15 days or longer

• No reliance on Irish public services

  Rely on Irish public services, for example public hospitals.

• Any work must start and end within a single 14-day periodISD's worked example: 7 days of work, a 10-day gap, then 7 more does NOT qualify — that needs the atypical working scheme and a short stay employment visa instead.

  You should apply for a business visa if your work in Ireland starts and ends within a single 14 day period (2 calendar weeks).

• You cannot work more than once during the 90-day periodISD's worked example: 14 days of work, leaving Ireland for a month, then returning for another 14 is NOT permitted on this visa even though each block is under 14 days.

  You cannot work more than once during the 90 day period

• A visa permits travel to Ireland, not entry — an officer may still refuseRecorded so an approved visa is never presented as guaranteed entry.

  A visa allows you to travel to Ireland only. It does not give you permission to enter the country or to stay here. An immigration officer at border control can refuse you entry even if you have a visa.

• Each traveller must apply separately

  Each traveller must apply for a separate visa.

• There is no minimum amount of money requiredSame as Ireland's visit visa: the absence of a threshold is itself the rule, and recording it explicitly stops a figure being borrowed from another destination.

  There is no minimum amount of finance for approving or refusing a visa application. The visa officer will decide if you have enough based on your own circumstances.

Documents you must provide

• Current passport valid at least 6 months after you plan to leave IrelandSix months here, against twelve on Ireland's long term study visa. Quoted from each page rather than assumed to match.

  Your current passport must be valid for at least 6 months after the date you plan to leave Ireland.

• Photocopy of every page of all previous passports

  A photocopy of each page from all previous passports you have (where available).

• Two passport-sized colour photographs, signed and numbered on the back

  Include 2 passport-sized colour photographs of the visa applicant. On the back of each photo: Sign your name (in your native script and language) Write your Visa Application Transaction Number from AVATS

• A letter describing your travel plan if you route through a third countryISD warns the Irish application may be refused if the passport does not contain the visas expected for those countries.

  Include a letter that describes your travel plan to-or-from Ireland if you intend to: Travel to Ireland directly from a country that is not your home country, or a country where you are a legal resident Or travel from Ireland directly to a different country

• Proof of permission to be in the country you apply from, valid 3 months beyond your departure

  If you are not a citizen of the country you are applying from you must submit proof that you have permission to be in that country, for example a photocopy of your residence card. You must also show you have at least 3 months’ permission to remain in that country after the date you plan to leave Ireland.

• An original bank statement on headed paper covering the last 6 monthsISD requires it to show your name and address, account number and type, and money in and out over the last 6 months.

  An up-to-date bank statement, it must be original and on headed bank paper. Note: You may use a printed internet statement but it must be officially certified by your bank. We will not accept uncertified internet statements

Steps in the process

• Create the application online in AVATS

  Create your visa application online

Also stated by the authority

Not requirements in themselves. These are alternatives, exemptions, rights and warnings the authority publishes alongside the requirements — quoted here because they can change what applies to you.

• Do not submit your employer's bank statements unless askedAn instruction rather than an eligibility condition, recorded because sending unrequested third-party financials is a common and avoidable mistake.

  Do not submit your employer’s bank statements unless requested to do so.