Long-term residence
Naturalisation residency calculator
Estimate whether your reckonable residence in Ireland may meet the residence requirement for citizenship by naturalisation.
Proposed change, not yet law: on 9 September 2026 the Government approved priority drafting of a bill that would raise the reckonable residence requirement from 5 to 8 years for most applicants, alongside new language and civics tests. This is still a General Scheme, not yet published, and has to go through pre-legislative scrutiny and the full Oireachtas process before it could take effect. This calculator uses the current 5-year rule below. Read the announcement.
This calculator is for non-EU, non-EEA and non-Swiss nationals only. UK, EU, EEA and Swiss nationals should not use this tool. You must submit documents proving residence length directly. See the official ISD calculator for that process.