Employer- and project-linked work-visa route for a foreign worker whose application is processed before departure.
Eligibility: 1Documents: 1Process & costs: 1Report facts: 11
Western Asia · Immigration
Iraq
Iraq sits in Western Asia. Its immigration system runs 22 distinct routes — led by work, short stays and visits and study, each set out in official law. 21 of them cite an official government source, shown on the route with the date we last read it. Who actually qualifies depends on your full profile.
1 further route is recorded for Iraq but not shown here — its details are still under review.
- Immigration routes
- 22across 9 route categories, each set out in official law
- Source-cited routes
- 21 of 22cite an official government source, with the date we last read it
- Largest category
- Work6 of the 22 routes — see them under Work below
- Region
- Western Asia
- Capital
- Baghdad
- Population
- 47,020,774
- Official language
- Arabic, Aramaic · +1
- Currency
- IQD
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
Source-cited pathways
Immigration routes
All 22 routes, grouped by purpose — 21 of 22 cite an official government source directly. Any route below without one says so on the route.
Work
6 routes
KRI residence card for a foreign domestic worker brought through an authorised foreign-labour company or lawfully sponsored by a householder.
Eligibility: 2Documents: 3Process & costs: 4Report facts: 8
Official government source: service.gov.krd · checked 2026-07-27
KRI residence card for a foreigner working for a Kurdistan Regional Government agency.
Eligibility: 2Documents: 1Process & costs: 4Report facts: 9
Official government source: service.gov.krd · checked 2026-07-27
KRI work-linked residence card for an adult foreign employee supported by a registered organisation.
Eligibility: 3Documents: 1Process & costs: 2Report facts: 10
Official government source: service.gov.krd · checked 2026-07-27
KRI work-linked residence card for a foreign employee supported by an oil or gas company and the Ministry of Natural Resources.
Eligibility: 3Documents: 1Process & costs: 3Report facts: 9
Official government source: service.gov.krd · checked 2026-07-27
KRI work-linked residence card for a foreign employee of a private university or hospital.
Eligibility: 3Documents: 1Process & costs: 1Report facts: 11
Official government source: service.gov.krd · checked 2026-07-27
Investment
1 route
Entry-visa facilitation route for a foreign investor or businessperson supported by the National Investment Commission.
Eligibility: 2Documents: 2Process & costs: 5Report facts: 3
Study
2 routes
KRI residence-card procedure for an adult foreign student supported by an educational institution.
Eligibility: 3Documents: 2Process & costs: 3Report facts: 7
Official government source: service.gov.krd · checked 2026-07-27
Current Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education admission route for international undergraduate and postgraduate students at Iraqi universities.
Eligibility: 2Process & costs: 1Report facts: 6
Official government source: mohesr.gov.iq · checked 2026-07-27
Family
2 routes
Direct consular entry-visa route for the foreign wife and children of an Iraqi citizen.
Documents: 1Report facts: 9
Official government source: mofa.gov.iq · checked 2026-07-27
Derived KRI residence card for the registered family of an eligible organisation or sector-sponsored foreign residence-card holder.
Process & costs: 2Report facts: 8
Official government source: service.gov.krd · checked 2026-07-27
Long-term residence
2 routes
Information-only record of the federal foreign-residence status, pending a complete current public application checklist.
Report facts: 1
Official government source: mofa.gov.iq · checked 2026-07-27
Six- or twelve-month KRI residence card for a foreigner sponsored by an authorised residency and visa company after entry on a visit visa.
Eligibility: 1Documents: 1Process & costs: 2Report facts: 12
Official government source: service.gov.krd · checked 2026-07-27
Short stays and visits
5 routes
Federal electronic visa issued through the Iraqi Residency Directorate portal for an eligible foreign visitor.
Documents: 1Process & costs: 1Report facts: 7
Official government source: evisa.iq · checked 2026-07-27
— No eligibility summary published for this route yet
Documents: 1Process & costs: 4Report facts: 9
Federal single-entry visa for tourism, religious events, holy-site visits or an approved organised tourist group.
Documents: 1Process & costs: 2Report facts: 10
Thirty-day KRI visit or tourist e-Visa available directly online or on arrival to a traveller in the published List A.
Documents: 1Process & costs: 4Report facts: 7
Official government source: service.gov.krd · checked 2026-07-27
Thirty-day KRI visit or tourist e-Visa for a traveller in List B who is supported by an authorised guarantor in the Region.
Documents: 1Process & costs: 3Report facts: 9
Official government source: service.gov.krd · checked 2026-07-27
Humanitarian protection
1 route
Current joint registration process leading to an Iraqi PC-MOI asylum-seeker card for a non-Iraqi person living in Iraq and needing international protection.
Documents: 2Process & costs: 1Report facts: 10
Ancestry and return
2 routes
Electronic-entry route for a foreign-passport holder or foreign national of Iraqi origin.
Eligibility: 1Documents: 4Process & costs: 2Report facts: 5
KRI entry without a visa for a foreign travel-document holder whose document records Iraq as the place of birth.
Eligibility: 1Documents: 2Process & costs: 1Report facts: 4
Official government source: visit.gov.krd · checked 2026-07-27
Transit
1 route
Federal single-entry visa for a short transit through Iraq.
Documents: 2Process & costs: 2Report facts: 8
Official sources
- Iraq eVisa MOIGovernment
- MFA VisaGovernment
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