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Irish passports are issued by the Passport Office, a division of the Department of Foreign Affairs. All Irish passports have been biometric since 2006. In 2015, the Irish government introduced the Passport Card, which enables Irish citizens who already possess a passport to travel throughout the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland.
Emergency passports (also called temporary passports) are issued to persons with urgent need to travel who do not have passports, e.g. someone abroad whose passport has been lost or stolen who needs to travel home within a few days, someone whose passport expires abroad, or someone who urgently needs to travel abroad who does not have a ...
Consular and Passport Division is responsible for the administration of consular services and the issuing of passports to Irish citizens. Political Division is responsible for international political issues and manages Ireland's participation in the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy .
The number of first-time passport applications from Northern Ireland and Great Britain was 100,000 out of over 1.15 million total applications. Record year for Irish passports with 1,080,000 ...
An Irish passport. As of 2025, Irish citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 191 countries and territories, ranking the Irish passport 4th in the world according to the Henley Passport Index. [1] Since Brexit and as of 2025, Irish citizens are the only nationality in the world with the right to live and work in both the European ...
Irish biometric passport cards are only available to adults of 18 years and over who already have an Irish passport booklet and cost €35. They expire on the same date as the holder's Irish passport booklet or 5 years after issue, whichever is the shorter period.
Only Irish passports are not obliged by EU law to contain fingerprint information in their chip. With the exception of passports issued by Denmark and Ireland, all EU citizens applying for a new ordinary passport or passport renewal by 28 August 2006 (for facial images) and 28 June 2009 (for fingerprints) should have been biometrically enrolled.
The emergency passport is issued with a validity which is limited to the shortest time appropriate to the holder’s travel requirements whilst taking account of the transit and destination country requirements (for example, many countries require travel documents to have a minimum validity of six months).