Irish IRP renewal processing times

Q: Why is my Stamp 4 renewal delayed?

Renewals are processed first-in-first-out per category. An application waits until ISD's processing date reaches its submission date.

Renewing an Irish registration permission? Where ISD's queue is for each stamp category, and when it should reach your application. Tap any for the ISD source.

Processing timelines

ISD last moved a frontier on 17 August 2026 · we last checked 22 August 2026 · next ISD update expected Monday 24 August 2026

ISD · official Community · unverified

Stamp 1, 1H 28 July 2026 moved 17 August 2026 (+3d) 20 July 2026 approval reported 27 July 2026 · may be stale

Stamp 1G 26 May 2026 moved 17 August 2026 (+14d) 8 May 2026 approval reported 2 August 2026 · may be stale

Stamp 2, 2A, 1A 27 May 2026 moved 17 August 2026 (+7d) no approvals reported yet

Stamp 4 8 May 2026 moved 17 August 2026 (+16d) 22 May 2026 approval reported 21 August 2026

All other categories 7 June 2026 moved 17 August 2026 (+5d) no approvals reported yet

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Open any category to see its current frontier, pace and movement history.

☝️ Select one or more stamp categories above to open them.

Stamp 1, 1H

Now processing up to 28 July 2026

Movements (13)

Detected	From	To	Δ days	Source
17 August 2026	25 July 2026	28 July 2026	+3	wayback
11 August 2026	23 July 2026	25 July 2026	+2	wayback
6 August 2026	21 July 2026	23 July 2026	+2	manual
27 July 2026	9 July 2026	21 July 2026	+12	wayback
21 July 2026	30 May 2026	9 July 2026	+40	scheduled
7 July 2026	25 May 2026	30 May 2026	+5	manual
3 July 2026	21 May 2026	25 May 2026	+4	scheduled
29 June 2026	21 May 2026	25 May 2026	+4	wayback
24 June 2026	—	21 May 2026	+0	manual
22 June 2026	13 May 2026	21 May 2026	+8	wayback
15 June 2026	8 May 2026	13 May 2026	+5	wayback
13 June 2026	—	8 May 2026	+0	wayback
8 April 2026	—	20 January 2026	+0	manual

Stamp 1G

Now processing up to 26 May 2026

Last updated 22 August 2026 scheduled
Frontier moved 17 August 2026 (+14 days)
Backlog 88 days behind today
Pace ~6.8 days/week — slightly behind

Movements (12)

Detected	From	To	Δ days	Source
17 August 2026	12 May 2026	26 May 2026	+14	wayback
6 August 2026	5 May 2026	12 May 2026	+7	manual
27 July 2026	20 April 2026	5 May 2026	+15	wayback
17 July 2026	16 April 2026	20 April 2026	+4	scheduled
7 July 2026	15 April 2026	16 April 2026	+1	manual
3 July 2026	8 April 2026	15 April 2026	+7	scheduled
29 June 2026	8 April 2026	15 April 2026	+7	wayback
24 June 2026	—	8 April 2026	+0	manual
22 June 2026	30 March 2026	8 April 2026	+9	wayback
15 June 2026	21 March 2026	30 March 2026	+9	wayback
13 June 2026	—	21 March 2026	+0	wayback
8 April 2026	—	9 January 2026	+0	manual

Stamp 2, 2A, 1A

Now processing up to 27 May 2026

Movements (14)

Detected	From	To	Δ days	Source
17 August 2026	20 May 2026	27 May 2026	+7	wayback
11 August 2026	19 May 2026	20 May 2026	+1	wayback
6 August 2026	2 May 2026	19 May 2026	+17	manual
27 July 2026	25 April 2026	2 May 2026	+7	wayback
21 July 2026	16 April 2026	25 April 2026	+9	scheduled
17 July 2026	5 April 2026	16 April 2026	+11	scheduled
7 July 2026	27 March 2026	5 April 2026	+9	manual
3 July 2026	20 March 2026	27 March 2026	+7	scheduled
29 June 2026	20 March 2026	27 March 2026	+7	wayback
24 June 2026	—	20 March 2026	+0	manual
22 June 2026	10 March 2026	20 March 2026	+10	wayback
15 June 2026	5 March 2026	10 March 2026	+5	wayback
13 June 2026	—	5 March 2026	+0	wayback
8 April 2026	—	8 January 2026	+0	manual

Stamp 4

Now processing up to 8 May 2026

Last updated 22 August 2026 scheduled
Frontier moved 17 August 2026 (+16 days)
Backlog 106 days behind today
Community actual ~18.0 weeks applied → approved (21 in last 4 wks)
Pace ~10.6 days/week — keeping pace

Movements (13)

Detected	From	To	Δ days	Source
17 August 2026	22 April 2026	8 May 2026	+16	wayback
11 August 2026	2 April 2026	22 April 2026	+20	wayback
6 August 2026	21 March 2026	2 April 2026	+12	manual
27 July 2026	14 March 2026	21 March 2026	+7	wayback
21 July 2026	10 March 2026	14 March 2026	+4	scheduled
17 July 2026	7 March 2026	10 March 2026	+3	scheduled
7 July 2026	5 March 2026	7 March 2026	+2	manual
3 July 2026	4 March 2026	5 March 2026	+1	scheduled
29 June 2026	4 March 2026	5 March 2026	+1	wayback
24 June 2026	—	4 March 2026	+0	manual
15 June 2026	3 March 2026	4 March 2026	+1	wayback
13 June 2026	—	3 March 2026	+0	wayback
8 April 2026	—	5 January 2026	+0	manual

All other categories

Now processing up to 7 June 2026

Movements (14)

Detected	From	To	Δ days	Source
17 August 2026	2 June 2026	7 June 2026	+5	wayback
11 August 2026	1 June 2026	2 June 2026	+1	wayback
6 August 2026	12 May 2026	1 June 2026	+20	manual
27 July 2026	28 April 2026	12 May 2026	+14	wayback
21 July 2026	24 April 2026	28 April 2026	+4	scheduled
17 July 2026	22 April 2026	24 April 2026	+2	scheduled
7 July 2026	17 April 2026	22 April 2026	+5	manual
3 July 2026	12 April 2026	17 April 2026	+5	scheduled
29 June 2026	12 April 2026	17 April 2026	+5	wayback
24 June 2026	—	12 April 2026	+0	manual
22 June 2026	6 April 2026	12 April 2026	+6	wayback
15 June 2026	23 March 2026	6 April 2026	+14	wayback
13 June 2026	—	23 March 2026	+0	wayback
8 April 2026	—	11 January 2026	+0	manual

Get notified

Push notification when a frontier moves, for the stamps you've opened.

Watching: All categories

Other ways to get alerts (Telegram, ntfy) are in the README.

Community reports

Stamp 1G — community pace over time

applied → approved approved → card applied → card

Stamp 4 — community pace over time

applied → approved approved → card applied → card

Trailing 4-week medians of completed stages; gaps bridged where a week has under 3 reports.

Anonymous, unverified self-reports; duplicates and outliers filtered. Medians need 3 reports and cover the last 4 weeks of decisions.

Category	Reports	Still waiting	Applied → approved (last 4 wks)	Approved → card (last 4 wks)
Stamp 1, 1H	17	15 · 13.6 wks in so far	unlocks at 3 completed (1/3)	(1/3)
Stamp 1G	35 (4 relayed)	30 · 10.6 wks in so far	unlocks at 3 completed (2/3)	(0/3)
Stamp 2, 2A, 1A	4	4 · 11.0 wks in so far	unlocks at 3 completed (0/3)	(0/3)
Stamp 4	246 (55 relayed)	186 · 14.9 wks in so far	~18.0 weeks (21 of 60 completed · last 4 wks)	(1/3)

Community-reported, unverified.

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Stamp category

Application submitted (date)

at time (optional)

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Approved (date) (optional)

at time (optional)

Card arrived (date) (optional)

at time (optional)

Whose application is this?

Developers — API & MCP

Read-only, no key, CORS-open. Community data is aggregate-only — individual reports are not retrievable.

REST API

Endpoint	Returns
`GET /api/v1/frontiers`	Every category: ISD frontier date, days behind, movement velocity, community aggregates (reports / waiting / completed / with card, waiting & approval medians, card-lag median). Cacheable 5 min.
`GET /api/v1/community/history?category=4`	Weekly community pace series: trailing 4-week medians for applied→approved, approved→card and applied→card, in weeks.
`GET /api/v1/eta?category=4&applied=2026-03-15`	Timeline for one application: processing window, card-in-hand range, and counts of community reports from applications within ±2 weeks.

curl -s https://stampwatcher.com/api/v1/frontiers
curl -s 'https://stampwatcher.com/api/v1/eta?category=4&applied=2026-03-15'

Quote URLs in a shell — an unquoted & splits the command.

MCP

Streamable HTTP at https://stampwatcher.com/mcp. No auth, stateless, read-only.

Client	Setup
Claude Code	`claude mcp add --transport http stampwatcher https://stampwatcher.com/mcp`
Claude Desktop / claude.ai	Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → URL `https://stampwatcher.com/mcp`
Any project (`.mcp.json`)	`{"mcpServers": {"stampwatcher": {"type": "http", "url": "https://stampwatcher.com/mcp"}}}`

Verify from a shell (expects a JSON tool list back):

curl -s -X POST https://stampwatcher.com/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Tool	Does
`get_frontiers()`	All categories — same payload as the REST endpoint.
`get_frontier(category)`	One category by key ("4") or name ("Stamp 4").
`get_eta(category, applied)`	Timeline estimate for one application date.

Unofficial; see the footer disclaimer. Responses cache for 5 minutes — polling faster returns the same data.

Common questions

How long does a Stamp 4 renewal take?

ISD's published window is 6–16 weeks. The community-reported median is currently ~18.0 weeks from application to approval.

What date is ISD currently processing?

Stamp 1, 1H: 28 July 2026 · Stamp 1G: 26 May 2026 · Stamp 2, 2A, 1A: 27 May 2026 · Stamp 4: 8 May 2026 · All other categories: 7 June 2026 — updated weekly by ISD, checked here daily.

Why is my Stamp 4 renewal delayed?

Renewals are processed first-in-first-out per category; Stamp 4 is currently 106 days behind today. An application waits until ISD's processing date reaches its submission date.

How do I track my IRP renewal?

Add your application under My applications for a timeline, and enable notifications to hear when ISD's processing date moves for your stamp.

Is this an official ISD service?

No — unofficial. ISD figures link to their source; community figures are anonymous, unverified reports.