Do you really need a passport to visit Eire?

[rennie]

but someone who is not british but resides in Britain can get a driving license. which means they can go to Ireland no probs with theirt driving license but if they show their passport they might need a visa?

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

but someone who is not british but resides in Britain can get a driving license. which means they can go to Ireland no probs with theirt driving license but if they show their passport they might need a visa?

i dunno is that the situation or are you just kinda making up what ifs now?

 

[JWH]

Nope, Birth Certificate - FTM the only fully legal proof of ID in the UK.

You don't get UK citizenship just for being born here -> having a UK issued birth certificate doesn't prove you're a UK citizen (or does the birth certificate state citizenship on it? ).

 

[rennie]

i dunno is that the situation or are you just kinda making up what ifs now?

no not making it up. talking about my case...

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

best contact the irish embassy then

Address:17 Grosvenor Place, London SWIX 7HR. The Passport and Visa Sections are located at Montpelier House, 106 Brampton RD. London SW3. The telephone number is (+44) (020) 7235 2171 or (+44) (020) 2745 9033 Passport and Visa queries. Facsimile (+44) (020) 7245 6961. Email: [email protected]. The opening hours are Mon-Fri: 0930-1300 / 1415-1700. For consular services in Scotland get in touch with:CONSULATE GENERAL Address: 16 Randolph Crescent Edinburgh EH3 7TT Telephone: +44 131 226 7711 Fax: +44 131 226 7704. In Wales you ca get in touch with: CONSULATE GENERAL Address: Brunel House 2 Fitzalan Road Cardiff CF24 0EB Telephone: + 44 1222 662 000 Fax: + 44 1222 662 006.

 

[rennie]

i have garfieldlechat! cheers for the link... i know I need a visa to go to Ireland which is just pants cos according to stuff on this thread I can use my driving license n head out there without em knowing.

I was just wondering how that was possible (not disputing that it did happen).

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

i have garfieldlechat! cheers for the link... i know I need a visa to go to Ireland which is just pants cos according to stuff on this thread I can use my driving license n head out there without em knowing.

I was just wondering how that was possible (not disputing that it did happen).

dunno we flew with easy jet or ryan air i think (ask wiskers she has an infantately better memory than i do for these detasl things)

 

[Phototropic]

Interesting thing on Wike about the Common Travel Area:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Travel_Area

 

[PoInTs iN tImE]

passport

Yes you need to carry a passport no matter what. They will ask for it on disembarking the ferry and obviously any flight. There was a time when Ireland to Britain and vice versa was considered a domestic flight(NOT THAT LONG AGO) and you would just walk through passport control which there would be no officers. But the times there are a changed.

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Yes you need to carry a passport no matter what. They will ask for it on disembarking the ferry and obviously any flight. There was a time when Ireland to Britain and vice versa was considered a domestic flight(NOT THAT LONG AGO) and you would just walk through passport control which there would be no officers. But the times there are a changed.

hello read the thread and then learn summit... you don't need a passport... unless youa re from outside the eu

 

[rennie]

the Q remains: how would they know unless u have a passport with you?

 

[pinky]

i think you do need one - anytime i've flown to UK i've always needed one so i can't see why it would be different coming this way...long gone are the days of breezing through airports

there is deffo passport control in the airport - even though they barely look at it, you still need to show one....

 

[Col_Buendia]

hello read the thread and then learn summit... you don't need a passport... unless youa re from outside the eu

Maddalene suggested she was going to the north first and then would tag a visit to the south on later.

The replies seem to have assumed she was flying/sailing directly into the Republic from the UK.

If flying, you won't get on without a passport, from memory. I think it is on their websites.

Can't comment on the boat one, haven't done that route for years.

But if the journey is from the north/six counties/Ulster/N. Ireland/OSC (delete as appropriate) to the south/Republic etc, then the situation changes.

FWIW the Republic's attitude to the whole asylum thing has gone horribly racist in the past decade, and hence passengers disembarking from trains arriving in Dublin from Belfast have to pass a "passport control", which iirc amounts to two bored Gardai looking out for black people. No. I kid you not.

If Maddalene was to drive over the border from Belfast to Dublin, there are no longer any checkpoints anywhere, and sure nobody's killing anybody anymore so why should there be? Hence driving (or perhaps even on the bus, for I don't think they try the passport control thing on in the bus station in Dublin, cos the bus stops lots of places before getting there anyway) wouldn't require a passport or anything else for that matter.

But, as other posters have pointed out, should Maddalene find herself in a position where she needs to establish her identity/origin, a lack of adequate documentation might become a problem.

Btw, the gardai have a custom of posting their police to places other than the place they come from, which means that all the plod who traipse along the streets of Dublin are big country feckers. Which means that they might not be the most civilised and sophisticated of plods. Which might mean that if Maddalene isn't just as pasty white as most British/Irish people are, she might want to make sure she has some paperwork anyway.