Employer- and project-linked work-visa route for a foreign worker whose application is processed before departure.
Western Asia · Immigration
Iraq
Iraq sits in Western Asia. Its immigration system runs 23 distinct routes — led by work, short stay & visit and study, each set out in official law. 22 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.
- Immigration routes
- 23across 9 route categories, each set out in official law
- Source-cited routes
- 22 of 23cite an official government source, with the date we last read it
- Largest category
- Work7 of the 23 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 23 routes, grouped by purpose — 22 of 23 cite an official government source directly. Any route below without one says so on the route.
Work
7 routes
— No eligibility summary published for this route yet
Official government source: mofa.gov.iq · checked 2026-07-27
KRI residence card for a foreign domestic worker brought through an authorised foreign-labour company or lawfully sponsored by a householder.
Official government source: service.gov.krd · checked 2026-07-27
KRI residence card for a foreigner working for a Kurdistan Regional Government agency.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Study
2 routes
KRI residence-card procedure for an adult foreign student supported by an educational institution.
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.
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.
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.
Can bring: spouse, children
Official government source: service.gov.krd · checked 2026-07-27
Residence-based status
2 routes
Information-only record of the federal foreign-residence status, pending a complete current public application checklist.
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.
Official government source: service.gov.krd · checked 2026-07-27
Short stay & visit
5 routes
Federal electronic visa issued through the Iraqi Residency Directorate portal for an eligible foreign visitor.
Official government source: evisa.iq · checked 2026-07-27
— No eligibility summary published for this route yet
Federal single-entry visa for tourism, religious events, holy-site visits or an approved organised tourist group.
Thirty-day KRI visit or tourist e-Visa available directly online or on arrival to a traveller in the published List A.
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.
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.
Ancestry & return
2 routes
Electronic-entry route for a foreign-passport holder or foreign national of Iraqi origin.
KRI entry without a visa for a foreign travel-document holder whose document records Iraq as the place of birth.
Official government source: visit.gov.krd · checked 2026-07-27
Transit
1 route
Federal single-entry visa for a short transit through Iraq.
Official sources
- Iraq eVisa MOIGovernment
- MFA VisaGovernment
- Kurdistan Region eVisaGovernment
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