Visa Free Residence permits delivered by Ireland and Cyprus

Residence Permits, D

an authorisation issued by a Member State or a decision taken by such State which is required with a view to entry for an intended stay in that Member State or in several Member States, or for transit through the territory of that Member State or several Member States.

, or any other visa, delivered by Cyprus, and Ireland: these documents in principle don’t have any (visa-free) value for the

twenty-nine member states are part of the Schengen area: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Croatia, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia and Slovakia. 

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However in the following two cases an exception to the visa requirement can be possible:

• they explicitly state that they have been issued to a family member of an EU citizen, or
• they explicitly state that they have been issued due to the Directive 2004/38,

This only concerns residence permits, never visa. In order to verify whether a specific residence permit delivered by Cyprus or Ireland is visa

to excuse someone or something from a duty, payment, etc.

for travelling to the Schengen area, you have to click on the subpage of that specific state below. A new page will open. Only when the document is explicitly mentioned it is possible to have a visa-free travel to the Schengen area.

If the document is not mentioned explicitly on the site then the document does not have a visa-free travel to the Schengen area.

• Cyprus
• Ireland