crowdx42 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 30, 2025 6:33 pm
Hi all,
I am an Irish citizen living in the US for the past 25 years. I am considering moving back to Ireland with my US citizen wife. From what I have researched, I need to prove I earned 40-50k a year for the last 3 years. My presumption here would be that is income made in Ireland? How does this work for an Irish citizen living and working in the US? Can my US income be used?
Thanks for any into
Patrick
As a non-visa national, your US citizen wife can simply fly with you to Ireland. You would declare your intent to move to Ireland to the immigration officer upon landing, and produce your marriage certificate and passports. The immigration officer will stamp your wife's passport with a permission to stay for 90 days, during which time you will need to register with the GNIB office. Read through steps 3 - 5 at the website below.
https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/r ... se/#8c52e6
If you've been married for a long time, you're generally considered low-risk and you're very unlikely to be refused registration at the GNIB office. I'm Canadian and I've gone through this process twice with my Irish spouse (Sep 2019 and Feb 2025) and both times I was issued with a Stamp 4 residency permission without any probing questions.
This form only needs to be submitted if the non-EEA spouse is refused registration by the GNIB folks. This is not required for OP. You really don't need to consult solicitors in most cases, unless you have some unique circumstances (such as criminal records, overstays, deportations, etc.).
