What travel documents should I check before travelling between Ireland and Northern Ireland?
There are no checkpoints and no routine document checks on the land border, and the road signs changing from kilometres to miles may be the only sign you crossed. That does not make paperwork optional. British and Irish citizens travelling under the Common Travel Area do not legally need a passport to cross, but everyone else should carry a valid passport, plus the visa or Electronic Travel Authorisation the northern leg requires and the permission the southern leg requires. Airlines and ferry companies set their own photo identification rules for getting to the island in the first place. Carry the real documents on border area days, not photographs of them on a phone.
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Sources
- Irish Immigration Service and Department of Foreign Affairs: visa required and non visa required nationalities, irishimmigration.ie and dfa.ie
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