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Ireland's secure long-term residence. Long Term Residency is available after roughly five years (60 months) of employment-permit-based residence, granting a further five years' permission to work without a permit. Critical Skills permit holders reach Stamp 4 — full work and self-employment rights — much sooner, after two years.
Non-EEA nationals with a qualifying period of legal, employment-based residence in Ireland.
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It is a longer-term permission, not citizenship itself; once you have around 5 years of reckonable legal residence you can separately apply for citizenship by naturalisation.
Long Term Residency is available after around five years of employment-permit-based residence, granting a further five years' permission to work without a permit. Critical Skills permit holders reach Stamp 4 — full work and self-employment rights — much sooner, after two years.
Residence is counted by the stamps in your passport and valid IRP cards; where two permissions overlap, the overlapping months are only counted once.
You generally need a minimum of 60 months (5 years) of legal residence in Ireland on qualifying employment-permit stamps before you can apply.
You must be of good character, not have come to the adverse attention of An Garda Siochana, and not have breached the conditions of any previous permission.
No. You must be in employment when you apply and throughout the process; applications from self-employed people are not accepted.
Yes. If your application succeeds, your spouse and dependants can apply too, but each must also have completed the required 60 months of legal residence.
