Chinese Embassy for Ireland - Address / Phone Number

Chinese Embassy in Ireland

Address: 40 Ailesbury Road, Dublin 4
City: Dublin (Standard time zone: UTC/GMT 0 hours)
Tel.: 01 269 1707 / 01 260 1119
Fax: 01 283 9938
Working hours: Monday to Thursday, 9.00 - 12.00 

The Embassy of the People's Republic of China is committed to promoting exchanges and cooperation between the two countries, deepening mutual understanding between the two peoples and providing convenient and efficient consular services. I hope this website could serve as a window for you to know more about China and China Ireland relations and a bridge for friendship between the two peoples.

Chinese Consulates and the Embassy ensure all co-nationals protection against the violation of their fundamental rights and the limitation or privation of their personal freedom. They also ensure emergency assistance; help in locating family members, inheritance procedures initiated abroad and for the repatriation of mortal remains. The consular services include:

• Registry
• Health and economic assistance
• Repatriation and repatriation for health reasons
• Consular protection
• Citizenship
• Notary services
• Passports
• Civil status
• Study
• Visas
• Working Holiday Program, etc.,

Theft or loss of a valid passport must be reported to the police and a police report should be presented when applying for a new passport. Otherwise a passport is applied as normally. When reporting a lost passport to the police it should be noted that a report made by telephone and a registration number given  on the basis of that might not be adequate proof to the insurance company. The report can be made in person at a police station so that a report of the crime is available in writing.

The purpose of legalization is to enable notarial documents issued by one country to be accepted by the corresponding department of another country, in the light that the authenticity of the signature or the seal of the document could be questioned or the legal efficacy of such documents could well be affected. In doing so, the documents are taking effect beyond the home country's territory. In accordance with Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and relevant regulations, Chinese Embassy and Consulates in the Ireland accept applications for legalizations from within the consular districts.

Based on Chinese laws and regulations, Chinese consular officials may decide on the type of visa, number of entries, validity period and duration of stay, and may also refuse a visa application or revoke an issued visa. Foreign citizens should have applied for and obtained appropriate visas before entering China unless they are visa-exempt according to certain agreements and regulations.

Chinese visas fall into the types of diplomatic visas, courtesy visas, public service visas and ordinary visas.

Foreign citizens who are going to transit China are exempt from visas, as long as they have a booked seat in an international connecting flight, and their stay in the city of transit is not to exceed 24 hours, and they will not get out of the airport during the stay.

Before traveling one must make sure that he/she has an original passport with at least six months of remaining validity and blank visa pages, and a photocopy of the passport's data page and the photo page if it is separate.

The Embassy is closed on the following holidays:

• 1 January - New Year's Day
• February - Chinese Spring Festival
• 5 April - Ching Ming Festival
• 3 May - In Lieu of Labour Day
• 6 May - Irish Public Holiday
• 3 June - Irish Public Holiday
• 14 June - In Lieu of Dragon Boat Festival
• 5 August - Irish Public Holiday
• 20 September - In Lieu of Mid-Autumn Festival
• 30 September - Chinese National Day Holiday
• 1 October - Chinese National Day
• 2 October - Chinese National Day Holiday
• 28 October - Irish Public Holiday
• 25 December - Christmas Day