Ireland

Stamp 0 (person of independent means). Ireland will let a family with roughly $55,000 a year in pension, savings, or investment income live there without working, so long as none of it comes from an Irish job.

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Stamp 0 (person of independent means)

A renewable one-year permission to live in Ireland without working, registered as Stamp 0.

Who qualifies

A verifiable annual income of at least €50,000 for a single applicant, or €100,000 combined for a couple, from an accessible, non-speculative source such as a pension or savings (not tied up in investment funds).
Immigration Service Delivery: Stamp 0 (Persons of Independent Means)
Private medical insurance covering the applicant and any dependants; no access to public health services or State benefits.
Immigration Service Delivery: Stamp 0 (Persons of Independent Means)
No employment, business, trade or profession while on Stamp 0, unless expressly permitted in the letter of permission.
Immigration Service Delivery: Stamp 0 (Persons of Independent Means)

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

Does it fit your family?

2 questions, from the program’s own rules.

Steady monthly income, from any source?

Not legal advice.

What it takes.

Income: At least $4,600 a month, steady and documented.
Time: 3–6 months to a decision once the file (income proof, insurance, Garda vetting) is complete.
Cost: About $500–1,000: no separate visa fee for the permission itself beyond registration (about €300 per year), plus private health cover and document costs.
The hard part: Proving the income is stable and accessible, not speculative; investment-fund income and unrealised gains are generally not accepted.

Dollar figures are converted from the local currency at the rate the program’s research used; the official figure is in the local currency.

Citizens by 2033.

If your first permit is issued in 2027 and you keep living there, this is the road.

2027
First residence permit
1 year, renewable for 1 year at a time.
2032
Apply for citizenship
2033
Citizenship

Time away: Five years of reckonable residence in the last nine, with the final year unbroken: no more than 70 days outside Ireland in the 12 months before applying (up to 30 more for exceptional reasons). Any gap in your permission, even a short one between renewals, does not count.
Two passports: Yes. You keep your U.S. citizenship.

Stamp 0 counts as reckonable residence for citizenship, but it never becomes Stamp 4 or any other permanent status, so the family stays on yearly renewals until they naturalise.
How long the decision takes isn’t published; we allow a year.

The law behind these dates

Living there.

Time you must spend there: No fixed day count, but the permission is for people actually resident in Ireland; long absences put renewal at risk.
Tax: Becoming Irish tax resident depends on days present (183+ in a year, or 280 over two years); Ireland has no special low-tax regime for Stamp 0 holders, so worldwide income can become taxable if tax-resident.

We never file a tax return. We tell you what applies and brief the professional who does.

Start today.

Read the Stamp 0 guidance and registration steps.Open irishimmigration.ie ↗
Gather these documents.
- Proof of steady income: at least $4,600 a month
- Request your FBI Identity History Summary
- Health insurance that meets the program’s rules

Postern can run this for you.

$900for your first year as a founding member. Then $399 a year, automatically.One membership, the whole family. Bank accounts and help putting your plan into action are included.

Postern runs it for a single US citizen applying from the US, unmarried, with an unchanged birth name and no earlier visit to Ireland: the application, first registration in Dublin and every yearly renewal.

16 steps, from the first paper to the passport. You do 4 of them: send what we ask for, sign, and show up. We run the rest, and keep every permit renewed on time. Opening your bank accounts there is included, whether you move now or keep the plan ready. Government fees, record fees and other costs you approve are extra.

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