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IRELAND

Employment residence permits

First residence permits valid for at least three months for employment.

16.8K2025

Low reliability

Employment residence permits

Ireland · observed years only

Data 2014–2025 · Source retrieved 17 Sept 2026

Retrieval confirms when the source was collected, not that the underlying figures describe today.

Eurostat

Published 11 Sept 2026 · Retrieved 17 Sept 2026

Source period: 2014-01-012025-12-31

Release schedule: Annual; revisions checked weekly.

Next release: No confirmed next publication date is recorded here.

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PeriodPopulation / groupValueSource flags
2014IE5,139
2015IE6,073
2016IE7,842Low reliability
2017IE9,398Low reliability
2018IE9,480Low reliability
2019IE12,049Low reliability
2020IE7,131
2021IE8,009Low reliability
2022IE19,502Low reliability
2023IE23,918Low reliability
2024IE19,078Low reliability
2025IE16,759Low reliability

What this measures

Third-country nationals; all citizenships and permit durations of at least three months

Calculation

Published official count; no calculation.

Limitations

First residence permits for third-country nationals valid for at least three months. A first permit can follow a gap of at least six months from a previous permit. Not unique arrivals, visas, citizenship or the foreign-born population. Free movement is outside this measure. Original Eurostat status flags are preserved for each observation: b = break, e = estimate, p = provisional, d = differing definition. No interpolation. Release update date is used as the publication date.

Birthplace, citizenship, migration flows, permits and asylum applicants measure different populations. A b flag breaks the time series; growth is suppressed across breaks. All ages use the source age definition; duplicate all-age definitions must agree.

Data 2014–2025 · Source retrieved 17 Sept 2026

Retrieval confirms when the source was collected, not that the underlying figures describe today.

Eurostat

Published 11 Sept 2026 · Retrieved 17 Sept 2026

Source period: 2014-01-012025-12-31

Release schedule: Annual; revisions checked weekly.

Next release: No confirmed next publication date is recorded here.

How updates are checked →
Eurostat

First permits by reason, length of validity and citizenship (migr_resfirst)

Original source ↗ · Retrieved 2026-09-17