Ireland
Polish passportEdit check
Free movement
Entry and stay only. What this covers
Entry conditions1 to check
- in possession of a valid national identity card or passport as evidence of his or her nationality and identity
Source & evidence Read the original words
Official wording
4. (1) A Union citizen who is in possession of a valid national identity card or passport as evidence of his or her nationality and identity may not be refused permission to enter the State unless he or she— (a) is suffering from a disease specified in Schedule 1, or (b) represents a danger for public policy or public security by reason of the fact that his or her personal conduct represents a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat affecting one of the fundamental interests of society. (2) A qualifying family member who is not a national of a Member State and who is in possession of a valid passport as evidence of his or her nationality and identity may not be refused permission to enter the State unless he or she
Aevamo’s reading
Section 17 of the Immigration Act 2004 empowers the Minister for Justice to make orders exempting classes of non-national from the visa requirement, and section 4(3)(e) of the Act makes non-possession of a visa a ground for refusing permission to land to everyone not exempted by such an order. The Immigration Act 2004 (Visas) Order 2014 is that order: its Article 3 enumerates every class that does not need a visa and its Schedules carry the state list, so it is the instrument that determines, nationality by nationality, whether an Irish visa is required. It is read here with the Act itself for the requirement, with S.I. No. 548 of 2015 for the Union, EEA and Swiss entry right the Order does not reach, and with the four amendment orders that have altered its Schedules.
Regulation 4(1) makes a Union citizen's permission to enter turn only on holding a national identity card or passport and on the limited health and public-policy grounds, and states no length for the stay, so no visa and no day cap is imposed on this class. The issuers on this row are the citizens of the Member States of the Union, whose nationality makes them Union citizens for the purposes of Regulation 2, together with the destination's own citizens and the one-letter ICAO code that German travel documents carry.
Source details
How the documents behind this regime are dated
The Visas Order states that it came into operation on 13 October 2014. Schedule 1 and Schedule 5 were substituted by S.I. No. 335 of 2024, in operation 10 July 2024, and Schedule 1 was last amended by S.I. No. 242 of 2026, in operation 15 June 2026; the Immigration Act 2004 consolidation is stated to be updated to 15 June 2026 and up to date as at 24 August 2026.
What this answer covers Limits & assumptions
Work and residence rights are separate from this check. This is the entry rule and the length of stay the instrument grants. It is not a decision about you: the officer at the border decides admission, and we do not evaluate the purpose of your trip, your passport's remaining validity, an onward ticket, funds, insurance or health requirements.
Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.