Important: As and from 18 November 2013 nationals of Thailand may avail of the Irish Short-stay Visa Waiver. This Programmed allows visitors who hold UK short stay visas and who have travelled through the UK to travel on to Ireland without the need to apply for a separate Irish visa.
- All holder of the UK short stay visas must enter and leave from the UK once.
- The person travelling has passed through UK immigration at least once on foot of them, the UK visa may be used for travel to Ireland.
Other types of visitors to the UK, for example those with transit visas, long term student visas, join spouse or family reunification visas, are not encompassed.
- All Visa application will be sent to Irish Embassy in Malaysia for further process. It should be borne in mind that the time frame for consideration of any visa applications can take 6-8 weeks for processing. However, in case the decision cannot be made by Embassy in Malaysia, the application has to refer to Visa Office, Dublin (INIS) which will take longer than 2 months for processing.
- For all original Thai documents has to be translated into English and submit both Thai and English version with your application.
- Please note that all documents submitted at the Consulate will not be returned.