For the relevant traveller scope, is a visa, electronic authorisation, visa on arrival or no advance visa normally required?
A visa must be approved and issued before entering the Republic, subject to the exemptions in the Immigration Act. Crew members and passengers of a cruise ship or private vessel carrying passengers between a foreign place and the Republic who remain less than 7 days (counted from the vessel's first arrival) are exempt from holding a visa.
See recorded sources
Limits of the record
- The pre-entry rule in §13(1) is general to all visas; the regulation does not state separately how C-1 relates to the under-7-day cruise/private-vessel exemption in §5(1)(g).
- https://rmicourts.org/wp-content/uploads/Immigration-Regulations-of-2009.pdf
(I) Subject to the exemption provisions of the Act, all visa applications must be submitted to the Director of Immigration and the relevant visas must be approved and issued prior to the applicant entering the Republic.
- https://rmicourts.org/wp-content/uploads/Immigration-Regulations-of-2009.pdf
(g) a member of the crew or a passenger on any cruise ship or private vessel carrying passengers between any foreign place and the Republic, who will remain in the Republic for less than 7 days, commencing on the date on which the ship or vessel first arrives in the Republic;