The Common Travel Area

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Practice notes

The Common Travel Area

Copyright © 2025 LexisNexis

Produced in partnership with Lawrence Youssefian of Goldsmith Chambers and Una Boyd of the Committee on the Administration of Justice

Practice notes
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What is the Common Travel Area?

The Common Travel Area comprises:

  1. •

    the UK

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    the Channel Islands (the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, which includes Herm, Sark and Alderney)

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    the Isle of Man, and

  4. •

    the Republic of Ireland

Exemption from the requirement for Leave to enter on arrival in the UK from within the Common Travel Area

Section 1(3) of the Immigration Act 1971 (IA 1971) provides that:

‘Arrival in and departure from the United Kingdom on a local journey from or to any of the Islands (that is to say, the Channel Islands and Isle of Man) or the Republic of Ireland shall not be subject to control under this Act, nor shall a person require leave to enter the United Kingdom on so arriving, except in so far as any of those places is for any purpose excluded from this subsection under the powers conferred by this Act; and in this Act the United Kingdom and those places, or such

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What does Common Travel Area mean?

An agreement between the UK, Ireland, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands (Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, which includes Hern, Sark and Alderney) permitting citizens from either country to travel freely without the need for passport checks as well as offering certain voting and welfare rights.

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