{"id":60,"date":"2026-09-30T16:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/pre-arrival-guide\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:24:12","slug":"pre-arrival-guide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/tr\/pre-arrival-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-Arrival Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<section style=\"padding:60px 20px\">\n<div style=\"max-width:940px;margin:auto\">\n<h1>Academic Year Pre-Arrival Guide<\/h1>\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\">You do not need to solve your entire life in Dublin before you travel. Focus first on the things that genuinely need to be ready before departure.<\/p>\n<h2>Before you travel<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Check that your passport is valid for your journey.<\/li>\n<li>Keep your ISI Letter of Acceptance accessible.<\/li>\n<li>Complete any visa process that applies to your nationality.<\/li>\n<li>Confirm your accommodation arrival details.<\/li>\n<li>Book flights with enough time to arrive and settle before your first school day.<\/li>\n<li>Save the school and accommodation contact details somewhere you can access offline.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Your standard ISI Academic Year arrival documents<\/h2>\n<p>For the normal school-side pre-arrival guidance, bring your <strong>passport + Letter of Acceptance<\/strong>. ISI Medical Insurance documentation is handled through the school process and is not added to this standard pre-arrival checklist.<\/p>\n<h2>Your first day at ISI<\/h2>\n<p>You will complete the school arrival\/orientation process and an individual level assessment with the Academic Department so your class placement can be finalised.<\/p>\n<h2>After arrival<\/h2>\n<p>Depending on your situation, practical next steps may include getting a SIM\/phone number, learning your transport route, applying for a PPS Number once you have a valid reason, and completing required immigration registration\/IRP steps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/tr\/arrival-irp\/\">Arrival &#038; IRP \u2192<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/tr\/pps-number\/\">PPS Number \u2192<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"\/tr\/transport-in-dublin\/\">Transport \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Year Pre-Arrival Guide You do not need to solve your entire life in Dublin before you travel. Focus first on the things that genuinely need to be ready before &#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-60","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/tr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}