Nationalities Ireland asks for a transit visa
Schedule 5 to the Immigration Act 2004 (Visas) Order 2014 is a second list with a second consequence. Article 4 requires a valid Irish transit visa of nationals of the states in it when they arrive at an Irish port in order to pass through it and travel somewhere else - a document for a journey that never enters Ireland.
**Of this corpus the Schedule reaches eight**, and none of them is in Schedule 1, so each needs a visa to land as well as a transit visa to pass through.
**Cuba has been here since the Order was made in 2014.** The other seven arrived by one movement repeated four times: deleted from Schedule 1 and inserted into Schedule 5 in the same article. Bolivia in September 2023, Dominica and Honduras in March 2024, Trinidad and Tobago in May 2025, Nicaragua, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Lucia in June 2026.
Where it actually bites
Membership is one thing and what a destination does with it is another. These are the countries covered here that treat these nationalities differently, and on which question.
Ireland- Visiting as a tourist · A Visa to Enter, and a Second One Just to Change Planes
- publishesImmigration Act 2004 (Visas) Order 2014, Schedule 5 as substituted
Irish Statute Book, Office of the Attorney General
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- publishesImmigration Act 2004 (Visas) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2026
Irish Statute Book, Office of the Attorney General
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The electronic Irish Statute Book: every Act of the Oireachtas since 1922 and every statutory instrument, each at a stable ELI address built from year, type and number. A full Act or instrument is served at the /print path; the /html path returns only the arrangement of sections. The site also carries a legislation directory page per Act listing every instrument made under it, which is the only published index of the orders that make up a scheme.
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Cannot be cited for: This site publishes Acts **as enacted** and statutory instruments **as made**, and nothing else. It is not the law in force and does not claim to be: the Immigration Act 2004 (Visas) Order 2014 has been amended more than twenty times and the text served at its address is the 2014 original, with no marker to say so. Section 819(4) of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 is served in words replaced in 2008. For an Act the Law Reform Commission has revised, the revised text is the one to read; for the Taxes Consolidation Act and for every statutory instrument there is no revised text anywhere, and the current wording has to be assembled from the amending instruments by hand. The directory page for an Act is reachable; the equivalent page for a statutory instrument returned an error when tried.
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