Embassy of Ireland

Great process for visa application. Very friendly and efficient. Best embassy by far.

Unreasonably long visa waiting time, ruins all plans. Disappointing habit

Now is not even possible for an Irish citizen invite family from abroad, giving any kind of evidence, refused, appeal with more evidence, refused again, confused motivations which were never explained, just a general standard line.But they make sure you send the fee in cash????? They demand you to send and collect the passport by currier but they tell you to hide the cash in the passport avoiding to mention the currier that there is cash in the envelope cause is illegal... but then they suspect that your family might come to work illegally in the country without any evidence. Never in my 18 years living in Ireland I saw a public officer taking cash. Given documents of House property and Job letter and still they have the nerve to say that evidence of going back to the country weren't enough? What did you need, roots on the ground? No evidence of personal funds, oh really? Do you know why? because in Belarus nobody keeps money in the bank, everything works with cash, you should know it, don't you take the visa fee in cash??? we have wasted 800€ between translation of 14 documents, plane tickets from Vilnius, Visa for Lithuania (granted by the way with no family in Lithuania) expensive currier and the guarantee that we would take care of all the expenses, history of previous visas in Ireand, all this for nothing. An Irish citizen inviting her sister....

Totally unacceptable waiting times.

Awful service and zero tolerance. Do not apply here.