I plan on using the short-term visitor visa waiver programme to enter Ireland using my short-term UK Category C visitor visa. I only plan to be in Ireland for 4 days. I am an otherwise healthy individual.

Here, in the list of documents that I need to carry:[https://www.irishimmigration.ie/at-the-border/entry-for-non-eu-non-eea-and-non-swiss-nationals/](https://www.irishimmigration.ie/at-the-border/entry-for-non-eu-non-eea-and-non-swiss-nationals/)

It says that I might have to carry proof of health insurance too. Is this absolutely necessary?

Also, I typically have around 10,000$ in my bank account. I keep my surplus cash invested in the market. Is 10,000$ sufficient proof of funds for a 4-day Ireland trip? If it’s not, I might have to move money from somewhere else into my checking account for the duration of the trip.

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  2. Ireland gets hundreds of thousands of US visitors every year. I’m willing to bet most of them don’t carry any of those documents with them. If you arrive with a return ticket , passport, visa etcetera you’ll be fine.

    If you are truly paranoid have photos of some useful documents stored in your phone that you can show in the unlikely event you got asked.

    Oh and yeh that’s going to be enough cash to convince any immigration agent that you aren’t coming here to abuse our welfare system.

  3. No one at immigration control will take a blind bit of notice of you. They will look at your passport and say “Next”. Americans are welcome in our country, unless you happen to be Charlie Manson.

  4. Show them proof of your travel insurance. If it’s attached to your credit card, just highlight the bit in your T&Cs

    Parents have been asked once, but that was after the guard had just tried to get antsy with me* and ended up with egg on his face, so he tried taking it out on them.

  5. Just make sure you have a copy of your travel medical insurance policy handy at immigration in case they ask to see it and you’ll be grand.

    If you don’t have travel medical insurance sorted already, definitely get some before you travel. It’s not just for immigration; if you are injured or fall ill here or in the UK, you will end up paying for health care services, and while it’s not as expensive as where you’re living in the US, it can still add up to a pretty big bill. Travel insurance policies are generally quite cheap, and often include other coverage such as cancellation for various reasons and trip delays, so it’s usually a good idea regardless.

    You can also check with your American health insurance company to see if they offer any coverage for overseas travel; it might be part of your existing policy already, or a feature you can add on fairly inexpensively.

    $10k USD should be more than enough to show proof of funds for a four-day trip, especially if you have your return ticket as well. Basically they just want to make sure you didn’t spend your last penny on a one-way flight here and that you won’t overstay or be looking for government aid or try to take up work illegally because you’re broke and can’t afford to go home or support yourself.

  6. You need and should always have travel health insurance… if you need to be medivacced back home it will cost more than 10k..

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