Successful Visa Applications
If your application is successful you will be issued with a visa to enter Ireland. You should inform Dorset College immediately and make them aware of your arrangements for travel.
Arriving in Ireland
- The issuing embassy to which you applied will place a visa on your passport
- The dates entered on your visa indicate the dates between which you may seek to enter the state.
NOTE: It is important to note that a visa is a form of pre-entry clearance to the state only, and does not guarantee that you will be permitted to enter or remain in the state. Immigration Officers at the point of entry are entitled to question any person on arrival. If they are not satisfied with the bona-fides of any person, or their reasons for wishing to enter the state, they have the right to deny entry to any such person, despite the fact they hold a valid visa. On arrival at a port of entry, you should have any documentation relating to your stay readily available to show to an Immigration Officer.
Attending your Course
- If you have been granted a study visa on the basis that you will attend school/college you must take in a course which involves at least 15 hours of organised daytime tuition each week
- It will be necessary for you to show evidence of your attendance record to the Garda National Immigration Bureau when seeking to have your permission to remain in the state extended
- If you do not show a satisfactory attendance rate at your course you will not be entitled to remain in the state