Visa Decisions

We separate visa applications (including preclearance applications) and visa appeals into separate queues. We divide those queues into smaller queues for the visa types detailed below. Each application (or appeal) is placed in the queue in the order we received them in the Dublin visa office.

Visa applications and appeals received by the Dublin visa office before the dates shown below, are now being processed. Please note that your application or appeal will arrive in Dublin a number of days (or sometimes a number of weeks) after you send it to us.

All dates are updated every Tuesday. However due to the number of visa applications on hand, decision dates may not change for some categories of applications.

Recent decisions for visa applications and appeals in the Dublin visa office can be found underneath the processing times.

If your application was sent to a visa office outside of Dublin, Ireland, please contact that office for processing information.

If your application was sent to an Embassy, please contact that Embassy. Contacts for the Irish Embassy can be found on the website of the Department of Foreign Affairs.

The table below sets out the dates that applications for visa and visa appeals received are currently being processed. This includes preclearance applications.

* Please see paragraph 16.4 of the Policy Document on Non-EEA Family Reunification for information on the visa Types. The longer waiting time for “join family” applications reflects the detailed assessment we must do for every application. The time it takes to process your application may increase if we need more documents from you, or if a detailed assessment of family rights under the Irish Constitution or the European Convention on Human Rights is required.

** Excludes “De Facto (unmarried) Partner of Irish National” which is shown separately.

*** Excludes applications where the EU citizen is an Irish National.

The following list includes details of all visa applications and appeals that have been processed by the Dublin visa office. This includes preclearance applications.

Decisions are published on this page every Tuesday. To check if your application has been approved, please search for your visa application number in the table below.

Visa decisions for other visa offices can be access by following the links at the end of the page in the other visa offices section.

You can usually appeal your visa decision without paying an additional fee to us. You must submit an appeal within 2 months of the date on your letter of refusal. We permit one appeal for an application, so if the refusal decision was on an appeal you will not be able to appeal that decision.

In order to be fair to all of our applicants, we do not expedite visa applications or appeals. Applications are generally processed in the order in which they are received.

While we acknowledge the personal difficulties an applicant might be experiencing, including a strong desire to meet up with family or friends in Ireland, expediting an application is usually confined to time-sensitive instances e.g. where a family member has been hospitalised, in a life-threatening situation or in the unfortunate event of a bereavement.

If you believe that your situation meets the criteria listed above, please contact the visa team through our dedicated Customer Service Portal.

The Customer Service Team will usually seek supporting documentary evidence to verify the situation e.g. a letter from a hospital/doctor or other relevant authority. Our team will work with families, or their representatives, to facilitate the application if possible.

If you need further information or are unable to find an answer in this section, please contact visa division.