{"id":41,"date":"2026-09-30T16:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/do-i-need-a-visa\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:05:09","slug":"do-i-need-a-visa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/zh_hk\/do-i-need-a-visa\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I Need a Visa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section style=\"padding:60px 20px\">\n<div style=\"max-width:900px;margin:auto\">\n<h1>Do I need a visa to study in Ireland?<\/h1>\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\">Not every non-EU student needs an Irish entry visa. Whether you need one is based mainly on your nationality. Your residence in another country does not automatically change that.<\/p>\n<h2>Use the official nationality checker<\/h2>\n<p>Immigration Service Delivery maintains the current list of visa-required and non-visa-required nationalities. Check it directly before making travel plans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishimmigration.ie\/visa-non-visa-required-nationalities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check my nationality on Irish Immigration \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Visa and immigration permission are different<\/h2>\n<p>An entry visa allows a visa-required national to travel to Ireland and request entry. It is not the same as permission to remain in Ireland. Students staying for more than 90 days may also need to register their immigration permission after arrival.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/zh_hk\/arrival-irp\/\">Read about registration &#038; IRP \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do I need a visa to study in Ireland? Not every non-EU student needs an Irish entry visa. Whether you need one is based mainly on your nationality. Your residence &#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-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academicyear.studyinireland.ie\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}