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Ireland's premium employment permit, issued by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE) for in-demand occupations on the Critical Skills Occupations List. It has no labour-market needs test, allows immediate family reunification, and gives a fast track to Stamp 4 (long-term residence with full work rights) after two years.
Highly skilled non-EEA professionals (e.g. ICT, engineering, healthcare) with a qualifying Irish job offer.
Our licensed advisors assess your eligibility, build a strategy to strengthen your application, and manage the process end to end, so you submit a complete, competitive application with confidence.
Yes. Spouses, partners and dependants of Critical Skills permit holders can join you, and once resident they can access employment permission that lets them work without their own job-specific permit.
If your application is refused you are told the reasons and can usually request a review of the decision within the stated time limit, and most of the fee is refunded on an unsuccessful application.
You need a genuine job offer in an eligible critical-skills occupation, meeting the relevant salary threshold, with the offer typically for at least two years.
Yes. After completing the permit period, you can apply for permission to live and work without a new permit, and after five years of reckonable residence you may apply for long-term residence or citizenship.
You are normally expected to stay with your initial employer for the first period of the permit before changing employers, except where exceptional circumstances such as redundancy apply.
The Critical Skills Employment Permit is Ireland's premium work permit for in-demand occupations on the Critical Skills Occupations List. It has no labour-market needs test, allows immediate family reunification, and fast-tracks you to Stamp 4 long-term residence after two years.
The Critical Skills permit targets in-demand occupations, does not require a Labour Market Needs Test, and offers a faster route to long-term residence than the General Employment Permit.
