Digital Nomad & Residency · Ireland
Ireland digital nomad visa: requirements (2026)
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Digital nomad visa in Ireland: via other route.
FrameworkImmigration Act 2004 and related permissions administered by Immigration Service Delivery (ISD, formerly INIS) under the Department of Justice; no dedicated digital-nomad visa exists.
Ireland has no dedicated digital-nomad or remote-work visa and there are no confirmed government plans to introduce one. Non-EEA remote workers rely on general immigration categories — most commonly a short-stay 'C' visitor visa (up to 90 days, no work permitted) or, for longer stays, Stamp 0 permission for persons of independent means, the Start-up Entrepreneur Programme (STEP), or an employment permit tied to an Irish employer. EU/EEA/Swiss nationals have unrestricted rights to live and work in Ireland under free-movement rules.
Key points
Ireland has not enacted a specific remote-work or digital-nomad visa, and none of the ISD long-stay permission types are designed to let non-EEA nationals reside long-term while working remotely for a foreign employer.
Stamp 0 is a temporary, renewable permission for financially self-sufficient persons (typically retirees, dependent relatives, visiting academics). Holders must have private medical insurance, may not access public services, and generally may not work or trade unless explicitly authorised in their permission letter.
Stays over 90 days require a long-stay 'D' visa granted only for defined purposes — employment (with a Department of Enterprise permit), study, family reunification, minister of religion, or approved programmes — not for freelance/remote work per se.
Non-EEA founders with an innovative High Potential Start-Up proposal and at least €50,000 in funding can obtain 2-year residence, renewable for 3 more, with a path to long-term residence after 5 years. Not applicable to ordinary salaried remote workers.
Ireland's golden-visa route, the Immigrant Investor Programme, closed to new applications at close of business 15 February 2023; only applications lodged before that date continue to be processed. No replacement residence-by-investment scheme has been introduced.
EU, EEA and Swiss nationals may live and work remotely in Ireland with no visa or registration; this is the most common route to remote-work residency in practice but is not a nomad-specific programme.
Timeline - major decisions & events
Minimum Annual Remuneration rises for every permit category (General Employment Permit €34,000→€36,605; Critical Skills €38,000→€40,904), the first step in a phased roadmap raising the bar for skilled-worker residency through 2030.
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment ↗DETE published a phased plan to lift permit salary floors (which had stagnated since 2014) gradually to 2030, softening earlier steeper increases and reshaping who qualifies to relocate and reside in Ireland for work.
gov.ie ↗Ireland has no dedicated digital nomad visa; non-EEA remote workers and persons of independent means rely on Stamp 0, which permits residence (income ~€50,000/yr plus reserves and private health insurance) while working for an overseas employer but bars working in Ireland.
Immigration Service Delivery ↗Commencement of the modernised permit regime (enacted 25 June 2024): nine permit types, a new Seasonal Employment Permit, ability to change employer after nine months, and scrapping of newspaper advertising in favour of online job posting.
Irish Statute Book ↗S.I. No. 92/2024 brought into operation the Workplace Relations Commission code activating the statutory right of employees to request remote work, setting the process employers must follow for in-country remote arrangements.
Irish Statute Book ↗Act No. 8 of 2023 introduced a statutory right for employees to request remote working, the first legislative framework in Ireland addressing remote work arrangements (though it grants a right to request, not a right to work remotely).
Irish Statute Book ↗The Minister for Justice closed Ireland's residency-by-investment programme to new applicants, citing concerns raised by the EU Commission, Council of Europe and OECD over money laundering and security, removing a major residency route for non-EEA nationals.
gov.ie ↗Ireland introduced the CSEP to attract highly skilled workers (ICT, engineering, etc.) with no labour market needs test and a fast track to permanent residence, becoming the principal skilled-migration pathway still in use today.
Citizens Information ↗Ireland created two residency routes for non-EEA nationals: the IIP (investment-based) and STEP (innovative business with €50,000 funding), establishing the investor/entrepreneur residency framework, STEP remains open after the IIP's 2023 closure.
Citizens Information ↗Established the modern statutory employment-permit system (including the Green Card scheme) that governs how non-EEA nationals obtain the right to work and reside in Ireland, the foundation later reformed by the 2014 amendments and 2024 Act.
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