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Ireland living and working rights for UK citizens: Common Travel Area
UK citizens have a right to live and work in Ireland under the Common Travel Area. This is not a visa waiver or a visitor allowance.
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How we know
This page comes from the separate Common Travel Area zone rule, not from a country rule. The instrument in the sources is the provenance for the right. The ordinary country-row confidence signals do not exist for this route, and Stretch says so rather than borrowing them.
- Entry and residence basis
- Right to live and work under the Common Travel Area
- Length of stay
- No visitor-day allowance applies to this Common Travel Area right.
- How it's counted
- It is not a visitor day allowance; Stretch does not run a visa-day countdown for this right.
- Conditions
- This rulebook holds the Common Travel Area basis, not a route-specific visitor or registration checklist.
- Provenance
- Projected from the Common Travel Area zone rule and the instrument it cites.
- Country-row metadata
- No country row is used, so there is no country-row lastChecked date, access trust label or stay-length trust label.
Sources are listed further down the page.
What this right means
The Common Travel Area protects reciprocal British and Irish rights to live and work. This projected route records that right; it does not turn it into a day count.
How Stretch treats this stay
Stretch can still log days of presence for travel history and tax-day tallies, but it does not show a visa allowance, days left or a must-exit date for this free-movement route.
Sources
- Free-movement instrument: UK–Ireland Common Travel Area (GOV.UK guidance; Immigration Act 1971 s.1(3)), zone source retrieved 2026-08-16
Questions Britons ask about Ireland
Do Britons need a visitor visa for Ireland?
UK citizens have a right to live and work in Ireland under the Common Travel Area. This is not a visa waiver or a visitor allowance. The governing basis is the Common Travel Area zone rule, not a country visa-waiver row.
How long can Britons stay in Ireland?
No visitor-day allowance applies to this Common Travel Area right.
What conditions apply at the border or after arrival?
This rulebook holds the Common Travel Area basis, not a route-specific visitor or registration checklist.
How is this route sourced?
The page is projected from the Common Travel Area zone rule and the instrument it cites. There is no country row for this route, so no country-row lastChecked date, access trust label or stay-length trust label is available.
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