Guidance

British-Irish visa scheme

Guidance about how Chinese and Indian nationals can visit the UK and Ireland using a single visa.

• From: UK Visas and Immigration
• Published: 6 October 2014
• Last updated: 8 May 2019
  Show all updates

  1. 8 May 2019

     Updated Chinese translation.

  2. 10 December 2015

     Updated guidance.

  3. 6 October 2014

     First published.

Documents

British-Irish visa scheme

HTML

英国-爱尔兰签证体系

HTML

Details

The British-Irish visa scheme allows Chinese and Indian nationals to travel to the UK and Ireland using a single visa for certain short stay and visitor visas.

Please refer to the guidance which provides information on:

• eligible Irish visas
• eligible UK visas
• visiting the UK and Ireland
• visa application centres