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Short Stay 'C' Business Visa

Short Stay 'C' Business Visa (C) is issued by Immigration Service Delivery. VisaAI tracks 15 official requirements for it, each traced to the government page that states it.

Last verified against the official source on .

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Requirements change. Confirm every item on Immigration Service Delivery’s own page before you apply.

Conditions you must meet

  • Up to 90 days for business activities — meetings, negotiating or signing agreements
  • No work of any kind, paid or unpaid, for 15 days or longer
  • No reliance on Irish public services
  • 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 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.
  • A visa permits travel to Ireland, not entry — an officer may still refuseRecorded so an approved visa is never presented as guaranteed entry.
  • Each traveller must apply separately
  • 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.

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.
  • Photocopy of every page of all previous passports
  • Two passport-sized colour photographs, signed and numbered on the back
  • 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.
  • Proof of permission to be in the country you apply from, valid 3 months beyond your departure
  • 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.

Steps in the process

  • Create the application online in AVATS

Official sources

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