If your partner is not European but living here with you, you have to pay this annually. Marriage or civil partnership don’t automatically give residency rights without this extra tax

well, visa fees upon exiting many countries are $100 and more in some countries, and thats just for a holiday

I’m a U.S. citizen living in Sligo.

As an Irish resident during the past year, I spent more than 30,000 at Sligo restaurants, pubs, clothing stores, food stores, etc., not including housing and transportation expenses. I volunteer at a local arts center every week. I promote the great Northwest on social media to friends abroad who yearn to see the same sights.

My Irish residency permit says that I cannot run a business or take a job. So, I’m taking nothing out of the Irish economy. No one is losing a job as a result of me living here, in fact, I help fund the the lives of waitresses, coffee shop owners, artists, athletes, cellphone and internet workers, etc. Just as many Irish citizens do too.

The renewal of my residency permit took the local immigration officer less than 10 minutes. A bit more the first time, when for the first time in my life, I had my fingerprints taken.

For this I have to pay twice as much next time?

Clom ,, there are hard working ppl leaving this country every day we should be keeping them here not pushing them away to be replaced by cheaper labour ,

Ok frank out of the 1200 trained nurses in Galway last year how many have gained employment in Ireland , most have left so why are we importing nurses .or any other trade .we need to get ppl back to work who live here now irish or not , we can’t take any more ppl. In , there is no room in schools , hospitals , to support more ppl in Ireland

Why is it unfair and unjust. Every country had entry fees.

Please stop taking posts down , is there not freedom of the press in Ireland , or is this media just like all the rest in this country , what they don’t know won’t hurt them !!!

so i can get into a country like Canada, where there are far more opportunities for 75 euro and my Canadian girlfriend has to pay that to come back with me and work some shite minimum wage job?

Amanda are you one of the small percent of Irish that speak a fluently Gaelic or like the majority in this country you speak English as your first language ? Some of us have to pay more than €3,000 on school fees also our own medical insurance plus the gnib card. I’m a student and a worker, I want a better future that’s the reason why I choose Ireland, we cannot do nothing about the gnib fees we just have to accept it and pay it, most of the gnib holders work and pay taxes. So if you have a relative or a friend that is on the dole, remember that the money that came from our work or our countries ( because some of us get money from home ) is paying their food and roof. I’m just glad that I meet load of amazing Irish over here, and if someone tell me to go home remember that there are around 1 million of hard working Irish in Australia around half million in States and who knows about Canada and new Zealand. And they might have to handle the same treatment as most of the non nationals in Ireland. And have a nice Sunday

I was in the USA last year and the place was full of immigrants.

Seems like quite a large increase but if they don’t agree there are 26 other EU countries to choose from.

Non EU students actually pay full economic fees. They’re not subsidised at all and in fact their MUCH higher fees often support Irish/EU students by paying for university facilities.

All of our better universities are actively recruiting students from overseas as it is vital to their economic survival to have them.
Also, technically speaking its an excellent example of Irish academic institutions bringing in foreign money by selling their services overseas.

So, seriously stop slagging off non EU students they’re the life blood of our 3rd level institutions!!

okay people hold on here…. 5 days notice isnt alot…. i know its easy to say why you here go to another country, go back where you came from this and that.
1. people with no paper in this country only get something like 25 euro a week from government no more.
2. the one with only stamp 4 and 6 can get welfare in this country not just anyone.
3. your passport could expire in 2 months and your visa run out a month before that by law you meant to register for that 1 month so you expect them to pay 300 euro+ passport fee’s … kinda not fair
4. all the immigration are not fair, honest, do the paper work properly so much back log in them offices…. compare uk and other countries now.
5. all the hassle you have to go through in dublin department of justice office is a joke, all meant to make around 50000+ euro a day from foreigners … where does that money go??
6. EU agreement of taking foreigners in this country with Ireland so thats the law.
7. the worse thing . GNIB card is not a identity card ha ha … it get issued from garda’s basically … so why is that?
8. many things we can all say and we could be right but by increasing this the money isnt going towards right direction after charging foreigner student upto 6000+ in college for a year aswell.. Trust me more then half of this country runs on foreigners … dont forget alot of foreigners work too and now you want them to pay first to get in here then register+ pay and then pay to get re-entry visa,etc too much … ask your government where is all the money going, apart from refugee people being granted irish citizenship rest people pay 900+ if they get did…. where is all the money going ha?

I am afraid it is a good thing.Ireland has been an open door to too many.

That’s true. They do pay full fees and actually more than Irish students pay.

I think a lot of people are showing their true colours here now!

Refugee don’t pay anything at all, ever and they are the ones that get benefits from the welfare and etc. Something is wrong here . Just saying

Finbar, this is a fee that is paid yearly by those who are not EEA national to be registered with the GNIB which is what the are legally required to do, their visas range from 1000 euros for the first one (which lasts a year) to 1500 which is an unlimited one.

Its a way to slightly close the door that is open case Ireland! our immigration laws in Ireland are a joke, no other ODC country allows the quota we do, so why do continue? because we are signed into a ridiculous European deal that they blackmailed us with! I never had a problem with people looking for better life but when too much board a ship, it sinks. And the “students”, lol, that’s a scam.

It is easier to get into Ireland than to get into the States.

It very much goes on in all them countries Finbar,they simply would not be aloud to sit outside for all to see…Miami for example, ten mins from there airport has bodies lay in a row,homeless,bigggg time…Aussie has some horrendous places,needles,homeless- but again not for the eye to see along high streets..It goes on sadly everywhere….

Finbar. Are you implying that immigrants are neither good nor hardworking. In most countries it is the immigrants who are the hardest working.

this will seriously affect those who have not gotten naturalised, especially if they are a couple with children that are here over the age of 18, as its an extra 150 euro per person per year

@ David what about us who are legally here as students ?? Do you think it’s fair

This is too much for non nationals. we must think abt other stamp holders. They are aloso contributing to Irish economy and society.

This is not fair at all. Am Kenyan student in UCD and my passport was stamped ” Not allowed to work or engage in any business activity” so am only spending the little that my parents send me back from home.

Dale did I say you are taking a job !!! I came out of mass to day in Dublin there were 4 ppl begging outside ,, are these the ppl we want in Ireland , would. This go on in the USA , Canada or austraila not a chance , yes there are good ppl moving to Ireland and should be praised for there involment in
Ireland

if you cannt afford ?300 how can you afford to support yourself in Ireland

David the thing to study back home is that around the world they see our education as rubbish, have an education in europe is well see in the world, so if I have the chance to emigrate and get a better education why should I stay in home, I pay my fees over here, and one thing I hope that the kid that you are holding don’t feel in the necessity to emigrate from here. Because I have a lot of friends that were born here that are doing that. Leaving home and they still don’t know when are they coming back

300 lol, lazy civil servants need a pay rise, legal high skilled migrants won’t go on strike, let’s rip them off.
And btw there is another 100 on top for a reentry viza, just in case you need a holiday outside. If ireland planto attract talent in tech sector. Mr. Shater and his crew have to think twice.

At the end of the day u can’t come to this country from another and complain how’s it’s run , simple as that I’f u don’t like it well go home

reply to Tom

What ever good skill or bad skill they all working hard to pay tax and to help Ireland. You think without them here can be better ? how many people in Ireland do not even want go out to looking for work. I think you really need more study on this.

The 100% increase in Immigrant Registration Certificate is exorbitant but not surprising. At the Abolition of slavery the slave owner was indemnified for the loss of his property-people.The slaves were thrown out on the road, left to fend for themselves. This policy of targeting the weak has underpinned European mercantilism down through the centuries to the present. Make the weak and the vulnerable, those without a voice, pay for the faultlines of a failed economic decisions.
Bobby Gilmore.

they should charge ?3000 and they must pass a spoken english exam!

How much do the immigrants cost the sta in total ? Work out what they contribute then make informed decisions. Eg nurses from the phillipines work but their partners are not given permits so they must sit at home all day on welfare, even though they want to work. Net cost or contribution – marginal depending on whether they have children or not.

Well said Amanda

Well said Caroline

Can u not study in ure own country ??? Can’t complain if u ain’t alowed work here u no the rules b4 u get here ,,,

What ever good skill or bad skill they all working hard to pay tax and to help Ireland. You think without them here can be better ? how many people in Ireland do not even want go out to looking for work. I think you really need more study on this.

Honestly, I don’t see the problem. it’s 150 euro extra to stay in this country for up to a year so why complain.
if you can’t afford it how come you can be here?
and…….compared to other countries Ireland it’s much easier to come and stay in. Try Switzerland or France or Germany and even UK then talk.
I know it’s not fair but hey…..such is life.

This is not unfair ,,, it’s a good thing , will stop a lot more COMEN here in the first place ,,,

Yes Amanada ,there are ppl sleeping under shelters in the USA , and other country’s but there were there from , why should we import them

What do u no about native Irish dorin???,

Dorin were u from????