Naturalisation Residency Calculator

Chimichangas

Hi, i am filling in the naturalisation residency calculator; is it just the stamps that says you can stay in Ireland until that you need?

EXAMPLE:.
I arrived on the 5th May 2017 and I got a stamp saying that I can stay in Ireland until the 21st May 2020, so I put down 05/05/2016 - 21/01/2020?

Question 1:
Can I ignore the 3 weeks I was on holiday for because I am allowed to leave the country for a period up to 6 weeks without having to note it in the residency calculator?

dennyk

On the calculator you'll enter the start date and expiration date of each of your passport permission stamps that count for reckonable residence. It's fine if the dates of each stamp overlap a bit (as that's perfectly normal, since you generally have to renew a little before your current permission expires) and for your current stamp to expire in the future, and the calculator will account for it. Don't enter short-term stamps (e.g. the initial visitor permission stamp you received upon arrival before registering for the first time with the GNIB), as those are not reckonable.

Excessive time (greater than six weeks per year) spent physically outside Ireland during your residence here is documented separately on your Form CTZ3, in section 5.6. It doesn't have to be accounted for on the residency calculator itself, however, since that calculator is only based on the dates on your Irish permission stamps. Periods of less than six weeks per calendar year spent outside Ireland don't need to be documented.

If you arrived in May 2017, don't put May 2016 on your calculator; they will validate the dates of all your stamps themselves no matter what you put on there. Requiring applicants to use the calculator when applying is really just to prevent people who are bad at math from clogging up the application system and wasting the Department's time by submitting applications when they definitely don't have the required reckonable residence yet.