Do you pass through border control/customs UK to Dublin?

[user10821]

Looking to head away on my own for the first time so wanted an easy flight/arrival/departure.

If I fly from the UK (Birmingham airport) to Dublin, will I still have to pass through border control and customs? I've seen conflicting information on this. I've read that 100% of passengers go through border control to Belfast as well, which surprised me as it's a domestic flight.

I flew to Edinburgh last year and I went straight to get my luggage after landing. No border control. No customs. Was hoping that either Belfast or Dublin would be the same but looks like it may not be!

There is a passport check in Dublin for all passengers.

As the previous poster said, there is a passport check. Coming from the UK you still get waved into the "EU" line, and it only takes a few minutes to go through. But yes, you will need a passport.

@Usou @TheYearOfSmallThings

Thanks both. I have a passport so it's fine. I just didn't want to deal with the stress of really long queues at border control. If it only takes a few minutes then I suppose that's alright!

You get that Dublin is in Ireland, right? As in, not in the UK, therefore not in any way equivalent to Scotland?

Ryanair requires a passport to get on board anyway. Aer Lingus will (I think) accept other photo ID. But yes, even the native citizens have to go through passport control to get landside.

I'm surprised that you need immigration check in Belfast if coming from across the sea with a British Passport, but maybe that's a Brexit thing I don't know.

Yes... hence why my thread title clearly says "UK to Dublin".....

Also, Belfast is in the UK, which was part of my question as well.

In fairness there is a "Common Travel Area" between Ireland and Britain where British citizens have free movement like in EU pre Brexit. Still need a passport though!

OP if you have any questions about Dublin ask away. Hope you enjoy it. Not many on MN seem to, but I guess they don't know the right places to go!

You don’t need a passport from Belfast to GB. Sometimes the airline insists you have photographic ID but that’s on them and quite variable. BA don’t demand it and I didn’t need it on easyJet in the last month.

Ferries neither!

I also don’t think my ID has ever been checked on the Dublin ferry!

Yes, you'll have to go through border control but it's really really quick. Not quite 'passport check' as a few have said above as you definitely don't need a passport to enter Ireland from UK, but a passport will most certainly be easiest when flying in, and of course it's needed if you're flying Ryanair (god damn the bastards being the cheapest!). Otherwise it's photo ID.

I think the longest I've ever had to wait would be around 10 minutes.

Yes we have passport control in Dublin. Depends when you fly you could sail through or be in a queue but its never that long a queue. Any questions ask away as Im a local :)

@greenhousegal no you don't

I just didn't want to deal with the stress of really long queues at border control.

No don't worry, you go straight through.

No passport control comjng into Belfast. I've rarely even been asked for my ID when flying from other parts of uk.

Oh and you also won't have to go through border checks on the way back (depending where you're flying to but I know this is 100% the case in Liverpool and Manchester.)

Ireland likes to check you on the way in, but seems England don't give a shit on the way back 😜. Saves 10 minutes, and means you can put your passport away securely after the gate in Ireland on the way back, knowing you won't have to retrieve it again.

... Actually, I've just remembered one time in the last 10 years of travelling England to Ireland, when they had two people just before the door after you walk off the plane who were randomly checking ID.

There's passport control but you don't need a passport, just photo ID. Some airlines require passport though as a condition of boarding - Ryanair. Others done - BA.

You go through passport control going into Ireland (as in Republic of Ireland not Northern Ireland) but you don't when you come back into the UK. It's passports - baggage collection - customs channel when you arrive in Dublin.