> ADOPTED CHILD OF AN IRISH CITIZEN

A person travelling on a Chinese passport must obtain a valid Irish visa in order to travel to Ireland .

In order to obtain an Irish visa the Visa Office requires the following documents to be submitted on behalf of the child (the visa applicant):

• Signed Summary of your on-line application form, signed by the parent on behalf of the child. Please refer to our Application Forms Page for details.
• 1 passport sized colour photo of the applicant that meets our specifications
• The original passport of the applicant
• The original passport(s) of the adopting parent(s). [Note: a photocopy of the bio page of each passport should also be provided.]
• The original and one photocopy of the letter issued by the Department of Justice, Equality & Law Reform declaring suitability and eligibility to adopt
• The original and one photocopy of the Certificate of Adoption issued by the Chinese Authorities

The Visa Office does not require any additional documents or notarised certificates.

The processing of such visa applications is provided free of charge.

Please note that the above documents may be submitted by a third party, i.e. the Travel Agent, on behalf of the applicant and his or her parent(s). It is not necessary for the applicant and his or her parent(s) to present themselves at the Visa Office.

Adoption visa applications are given priority over other application types. An application will take approximately thirty minutes to process. However, please note that in the case where a family is travelling with one or more other families then all applications will be accepted together as one group and documents will not be returned until the last application has been processed.

In the case of large groups, applications may be lodged in the morning and collected in the afternoon, if convenient.

The application may be lodged by either a parent of the child or by the assisting Chinese agent.

All visa applications will be processed within one day.

Before you complete your visa application please thoroughly read the information contained in General Information for all Visa types. .