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Steps to Garda Vetting

  1. Complete the application form
  2. Prepare your documents and ID
  3. Submit all documents and ID in person
  4. Complete the e-vetting form
  5. Receive your vetting confirmation

All students on courses who will be involved in relevant work with children and/or vulnerable adults are legally required to be vetted by the National Vetting Bureau. Garda Vetting is requried once you've accepted your offer to study.

Until your Garda Vetting has been completed and you have received your Garda Vetting clearance, you will not be able to attend any programme placements or carry out research in hospitals, schools, clinics, home visits etc.

If you are a student returning from ‘Off-Books’, you must be vetted again.

A hard copy of your Garda Vetting application and documents must be submitted in person at the Academic Registry Service Desk. Please do not send copies of your application and documents by post or by email as they will not be accepted.

Once we have received your application, documents and ID you will be able to start registration within one to three working days.

If you are having any issues completing Garda Vetting, please contact our Garda Vetting team.

Courses that require Garda Vetting

Students enrolled in the following undergraduate courses must undergo Garda Vetting:

  • Clinical Speech & Language Studies
  • Deaf Studies
  • Dental Hygiene
  • Dental Nursing
  • Dental Science
  • Dental Technology
  • Human Nutrition & Dietetics
  • Medicine
  • Midwifery
  • Music Education
  • Nursing (All Strands)
  • Occupational Therapy
  • Pharmacy - Integrated Pharmacy
  • Pharmacy - Graduate Entry to Pharmacy
  • Physiotherapy
  • Psychology
  • Radiation Therapy
  • Social Studies (Social Work)

Students enrolled in the following postgraduate courses must undergo Garda Vetting:

  • Ageing Health and Wellbeing in Intellectual Disability
  • Applied Behaviour Analysis
  • Applied Social Research
  • Clinical Dental Technology
  • Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy
  • Conscious Sedation in Dentistry
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Clinical Speech & Language Studies (Dysphagia)
  • Clinical Speech & Language Studies
  • Cognitive Psychotherapy
  • Dental Surgery - All Strands
  • Dementia
  • Diagnostic Radiography
  • Disability Studies
  • Nursing (All Strands)
  • Professional Masters in Education – All Strands
  • Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
  • Social Work
  • Special Care Dentistry

Documents and ID

As part of your Garda Vetting, you will need to submit the following documents:

  1. NVB1 Form*
  2. TCDV_1 Form*
  3. NVB3 Parent/Guardian Form* (required if you are under 18 years of age)
  4. Police Clearance Certificate (required if you have lived outside Ireland for more than 6 months since the age of 18)

*These forms will be emailed to you after you submit your application form. These will be sent to the email address you provided on the form.

You will also need to provide two forms of physical ID (plus photocopies)*:

  1. Acceptable photo ID*
    • Passport
    • Driver's Licence - Irish/EU/UK DL or LP
    • National Identity Card - EU/EEA/Swiss citizens only
  2. Acceptable proof of address (dated within the last six months)**
    • Bank Statement from a recognised bank (not private money lenders or Revolut)
    • Building Society/Credit Union Statement or Credit Union Passbook
    • Utility Bill e.g. gas, electricity, television, broadband, waste and TV licence (Printed online bills are acceptable/ Mobile phone bills are not acceptable)
    • Correspondence from government departments/organisation
    • Letter from Local Council confirming residency

*The name on your ID must match the name on your application form and proof of address.

**Please note that any proof of address examples must state your name, current address and be dated within the last six months.

Any documents not in English must be translated by an official translation company. A copy of your translated documents and a copy of your documents in their original language must be submitted.

International Student Vetting

If you have resided outside Ireland and Northern Ireland for more than 6 months since the age of 18, you must provide a Police Clearance Certificate(s) for each country. To get a police certificate, you will need to contact the policing body in the relevant country*.

Once you have accepted your offer to study you should request your certificate as soon as possible.

UK Police Certificates

The police clearance can be dated any time after you have left the country but not more than six (6) months prior to leaving.

Any documents not in English must be translated by an official translation company. A copy of your translated documents and a copy of your documents in their original language must be submitted.

*Trinity College Dublin has no affiliation with or connections to any information on these websites and is not responsible for the content of links provided.

Vetting Timelines

Completing Garda Vetting

After your application has been received, we will enter your details into the National Vetting Bureau (NVB) system. You will then receive an email from evetting.donotreply@garda.ie with a link to complete the online e-vetting form.

After you complete the e-vetting form, the vetting process can take 2–4 weeks*. You can track its progress through the NVB system.

Once your Garda Vetting application has been processed by the National Vetting Bureau, a disclosure will be issued to Academic Registry which will be sent to your Trinty email.

*Please note that this time can vary due to the volume of applications received.

EU and UK Checks

Garda vetting for relevant work with children includes additional checks with other EU member states and the UK.

Students must declare on their e-vetting application if they have lived in an EU country or the UK. These additional checks will extend the processing time (currently approximately 15 working days) as follows:

  • Applications requiring EU checks: allow up to +10 working days.
  • Applications requiring UK checks: allow up to +20 working days.

These timelines are set in line with EU and UK policy and are outside the control of Trinity or the Garda National Vetting Bureau.

Learn more about Garda Vetting

FAQs

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