Registering your immigration permission

If you are from a country outside the European Union, UK or Switzerland, and come to Ireland to work, study, live or join family for more than 90 days, you must register with your local immigration office.

New to Ireland?

Registration is how we record that you have been given a permission to stay in Ireland and what you can legally do while you are here.

Find out more about how to register for the first time based on your location in Ireland.

Find out more about when you have to register.

Renewing or changing your permission when in Ireland

Is your permission about to expire? You can find out how to renew the registration of your permission here.

If you want to change from one type of permission to another, for instance from study to work, you can find out how here.

You can find answers to other frequently asked questions here.

This page was last updated on May 24, 2023