Irish Citizen Marrying Non-Eu in Ireland

spartan5power · 15-04-2016 11:30am #1

Hi there my fiancé and I are just about to get married she is a non EU national on a multiple entry C visa. In order to get permission to marry we have been interviewed and our marriage has been approved by the registrar and will take place in Ireland. My question is what will we need to do after so she can stay here with me? She is here legally and her visa is good until November. So coming and going is not an issue. What would be the easiest process for her to remain here with me?

Fred Swanson · 16-04-2016 12:46am

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Monife · 20-04-2016 9:25am

Fred Swanson wrote: »

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At GNIB if you live in Dublin or make an appointment with your local Garda station to see the immigration officer. You will need both passports, marriage cert, birth certs and proof of address.

Kdk86 · 16-01-2017 2:59pm

Hello!

Looking for information please! Did you apply for a stamp 4? How long did it take? I'm currently on a holiday working visa already that expires in september and looking to get married before then

spartan5power · 16-01-2017 6:27pm

Hi there,
So this is the update, after we got married we went to the local Garda station to register and were told we would have to apply to Dublin for permission to remain as she was here on a C tourist visa not a long stay D visa which is the correct visa for this sort of thing. The department we applied to is the Spouse of an Irish Citizen department. It was no issue to get married while my wife was on the tourist visa, we did have an interview to make sure the marriage was genuine which was actually quite a nice chat with the registrar. We were married in April and have been waiting since then for permission to remain in Ireland to be granted. She was able to come and go in that time until her tourist visa ran out and the immigration officers in Dublin were always very nice to us. The whole thing seems to be quite a long drawn out bureaucratic process so I would keep that in mind. The biggest thing for my wife is she has not been allowed to work at all since shes been here, she arrived in February of last year shes always been a very independent person so she is finding that hard not to be able to work. I am hopeful in the next couple of weeks her permission to remain will be granted.

Fred Swanson · 16-01-2017 6:43pm

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Kdk86 · 16-01-2017 6:49pm

Thanks for the info! So with that visa there is no problem staying here while you're waiting for an answer? That's what I am most worried about. I don't wanna lose my job in the meantime

What nationalities are you and your partner?

Kdk86 · 16-01-2017 6:53pm

Thanks for the info! So with that visa there is no problem staying here while you're waiting for an answer? That's what I am most worried about. I don't wanna lose my job in the meantime

What nationalities are you and your partner?

spartan5power · 16-01-2017 7:49pm

There will be no problem staying here while your waiting for an answer but whether you can continue to work will depend on the type of visa your on. My wife is on a C tourist visa so she would not have been able to work at all but is permitted to stay here while she waits for an answer. As you already have what sounds to be a working holiday visa there may be different rules as you would be changing your status and are already permitted to work. Its possible you might just have to register the marriage at your local Garda station. My wife is Indian and I myself am Irish.

topcatcbr · 20-04-2017 12:22am

Hi Spartan.

Can i ask for an update. Have you received the permission to stay.

What was the timeline.

I ask as i did the same as you. Married a filipina. We are currently waiting 10 months for a response to our permission request.

spartan5power · 20-04-2017 9:45am

topcatcbr wrote: »

Hi Spartan.

Can i ask for an update. Have you received the permission to stay.

What was the timeline.

I ask as i did the same as you. Married a filipina. We are currently waiting 10 months for a response to our permission request.

Hi there, no up to now my wife has still not been granted permission to remain. We have heard back from the INIS within the last two weeks however they requested all the same documents again for some reason, they did advise they still had our documents but wanted us to resubmit them I have no idea what the purpose of this is. At this point it has been almost a year since we first applied.

topcatcbr · 20-04-2017 3:30pm

spartan5power wrote: »

Hi there, no up to now my wife has still not been granted permission to remain. We have heard back from the INIS within the last two weeks however they requested all the same documents again for some reason, they did advise they still had our documents but wanted us to resubmit them I have no idea what the purpose of this is. At this point it has been almost a year since we first applied.

I hope you hear soon.

Its really a bad service. When i was getting married it said on their website that we needed to get a visa to enter. A C visa was mentioned. At no point did i see a D visa or any explanation of the difference.

The whole process is unfair and made as difficult as possible.

topcatcbr · 20-04-2017 3:37pm

http://www.inis.gov.ie/en/INIS/Pages/Marriage%20Civil%20partnership%20Visa

Nowhere on this does it mention a D visa.

I read somewhere about the C visa and assumed it was the right one. Its really difficult to get on without the proper status. No employment etc. A year waiting is ridiculous.

topcatcbr · 24-05-2017 5:47pm

spartan5power wrote: »

it has been almost a year since we first applied.

Hi Spartan. Have you heard from them yet. We wrote an email to them a week ago asking for an update. We just got an automated message.

Still no visa or stamp 4. Not even a temp stamp.

lamb233 · 26-05-2017 2:37pm

Hi Topcatcbr. Did they(INIS) tell you in a letter how long it gonna process your visa?

lamb233 · 26-05-2017 2:42pm

you have to send them a letter by registered post if you will follow up your application not by email

topcatcbr · 26-05-2017 3:17pm

9-12 months is what the Initial letter said. I would have expected to hear something by now tho.

spartan5power · 19-06-2017 7:46pm

Hi there,
So we finally got an answer my wife has been granted permission to remain in Ireland on a stamp 4

It took a long time; but in the end we got it done. Other than being patient (which I know is not what you want to hear) the only thing I can recommend you do is get an affidavit validating your marriage. If you have not heard anything from the INIS by the time you get to 12 months I would recommend you try to arrange an appointment to go to the office in Dublin and see what's going on, these guys understand that your basically putting your life on hold waiting for there reply, so they should be willing to talk to you.

If you are sending emails and not getting a reply, I would recommend you email your local TD advise them of the situation and ask them to request a status update on your behalf, you will most definitely get a reply.

topcatcbr · 19-06-2017 9:39pm

Thank you.

How long did you have to wait.

spartan5power · 19-06-2017 10:07pm

topcatcbr wrote: »

Thank you.

How long did you have to wait.

To get permission it was about one year and one month.

condra · 22-06-2020 3:02pm

spartan5power wrote: »

To get permission it was about one year and one month.

Glad to hear it worked out for you. I'm currently planning to marry my non-EU fiance and we're completely stressed out about the whole situation, especially as my career has been disrupted by health issues, and financial status seems to be part of the criteria for granting residency.

Irish Citizen Marrying Non-Eu in Ireland

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