Nationalities Ireland exempts from the visa
Not a bloc and not a treaty: a Schedule to an Irish statutory instrument. Article 3(a) of the Immigration Act 2004 (Visas) Order 2014 declares that nationals of a state specified in Schedule 1 are not required to hold an Irish visa when landing, and the Schedule is a bare list of state names with no condition attached to any of them.
**Membership here is read from the Schedule as substituted on 10 July 2024** by article 2(a) of S.I. No. 335 of 2024, less the states removed since: Eswatini, Lesotho and Nauru in March 2025, Trinidad and Tobago in May 2025, and Nicaragua, Saint Kitts and Nevis and Saint Lucia in June 2026. Every one of those orders was read.
**It is not a stable list.** Seven of the states this site covers have been taken off it since September 2023, and each of them landed in Schedule 5, where a transit visa is required as well.
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 · Named in Schedule 1: No Visa, and Nothing Else Changes
- publishesImmigration Act 2004 (Visas) Order 2014, Schedule 1 as substituted
Irish Statute Book, Office of the Attorney General
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- publishesImmigration Act 2004 (Visas) Order 2014, article 3
Irish Statute Book, Office of the Attorney General
About this source
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.
Standing:
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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