Irish Marriage Visa For Those in Canada

To make a visa application to join your partner in Ireland for marriage or to obtain a civil partnership certificate, you must ensure the following:

• You hold an original passport that is valid for at least six months after your proposed leave date from Ireland
• You provide adequate personal or financial information for yourself and your family members while in Ireland
• You provide evidence of the relationship history between you and your partner, including valid intent to marry
• You’re able to prove strong ties to your home country to prove that you’ll leave Ireland after you marry or enter into a civil partnership
• You provide details of your accommodation in Ireland

The first step of making an application for a marriage visa is obtaining permission from the Registrar to confirm the relationship. After getting that confirmation, you are permitted to begin the application process for the Marriage Visa.

You will then need to apply online and complete an online application form. After you submit the online form, you will get a summary application form, which must be printed and signed. There will be a detailed list of the required documentation that you need to submit, and then be asked to pay the application fee.

Once you have completed all these steps, you can submit your application to the visa application office. When you do that, you will receive a Visa Application Tracking reference Number which you can use to track your application.

Upon landing in Ireland, you must report to Irish border control and show your passport, visa and acknowledgement from the Registrar of Civil Marriages to the immigration officer.

A border control immigration officer will consider your documents and information, and if they are satisfied, you will be granted official permission to enter. If immigration officials have any suspicions about your application or the information you provide, it is possible you could be refused entry into Ireland.

Whilst the specific required documents may differ somewhat depending on your individual circumstances, there are several documents that are required.

The required following documents required are:

• Valid passport
• Signed and dated application summary sheet
• A signed letter highlighting:
  • Your reasons for travelling to Ireland
  • How long you intend to stay
  • Who you plan to stay with
  • Financial information on how you will fund the trip
  • You will also need to confirm your commitment to the conditions of the visa and that you won’t be a financial burden on Ireland as you won’t be able to access public funds
• Two-color passport-size photographs
• Bank statements
• Evidence of your relationship history and intention to get married or enter into a civil partnership
• Documents that show you’ll return to your home country of Canada.
  • This evidence needs to be sufficient to demonstrate strong family, social or economic ties to Canada.
  • If you are employed, you will need to provide your three most recent payslips, a letter from your employer on how long you have been employed at the company, the dates which you were absent from the company, and the proposed date of your return to work.
  • If you are a student, you will need to provide a letter from your college explaining the course(s) you are studying, how many years you have been a student at the college and the time of years/terms you have remaining at the college.

The documents must be submitted in their original form and in English or Irish, and if they are not, need to be translated by an official, accredited translator.

It is important to show you and your partner’s genuine relationship as part of the application. This will be looked heavily on by the immigration officer.

Information documents included are:

• Evidence of an in-person relationship between you and your partner, such as travel documents that show you and your partner have travelled to visit each other a number of times. If your relationship was formed solely over the internet or through text messages, such circumstances would not be considered.
• Acknowledgment from the Registrar confirming the intended date of marriage in Ireland.
• Marriage Registration Form with proposed date or marriage.
• Civil Partnership Registration Form.
• Up-to-date bank statements, with money going out and coming into your account over the past six months. (This applies regardless of whether you are funding your expenses or if someone else is).
• Evidence of your intention to marry/enter into a civil partnership.

In the case that your or your partner was previously married or in a civil partnership, you must also provide their:

• Marriage/civil partnership certificate.
• Divorce/dissolution of the civil partnership certificate.

If somebody else is funding your expenses in Ireland and will bear complete financial responsibility, you will need to show your relationship to this person. The information needed is as follows:

• Your name, address, account number and type of account must be visible on statements.
• Bank statements on official headed paper.
  • If providing a bank statement from a savings account, you must include a letter from the bank institution explaining how much you can withdraw from the account.

Cost

The visa application fee is €60 (81.41 Canadian Dollars) if you are getting a single entry visa or €100 (135.68 Canadian Dollars) if you are applying for a multi-entry visa.

Processing time

While the majority of applications are processed within eight weeks, the processing time does vary.

Upon approval, you will be able to start preparing for your trip and upcoming marriage in Ireland. The Marriage Visa is a short stay ‘C’ Visa, which means you will be able to stay in Ireland for 90 days. After that, you will have to leave Ireland.