Last updated: August 2026. We re-checked visit.gov.krd and the KRG services portal on 8 August 2026, alongside the federal e-visa rules, the FCDO’s regionalised advice of 22 July 2026, and the September 2025 cabinet decision that was supposed to merge the two systems.
Iraq has one seat at the United Nations and two working visa systems. Land at Erbil and the document you need is a Kurdistan visa, issued by the Kurdistan Regional Government. Land at Baghdad and your permission to be in the country comes from the federal Ministry of Interior instead. Separate portals, separate fees, separate databases, and neither authority treats the other’s paperwork quite the way you would expect. The two systems and how they interact are explained in our guide to Iraqi visas.
Here is the part people get wrong, so it is worth saying before anything else. A federal Iraqi e-visa is valid across the whole country including the Kurdistan Region, but a Kurdistan visa is only valid inside the Kurdistan Region and does not entitle you to travel into federal Iraq. The relationship is one-directional. If your trip includes Baghdad, Karbala, Najaf, Basra or Mosul as well as Erbil, buy the federal visa and skip the regional one entirely.
That asymmetry is the single most consequential fact in this article, and it is why we have repeated it more than once below. The rest covers who qualifies for a Kurdistan visa on arrival, what Country List B travellers have to do instead, the exact fee and validity, how the application actually works, what happens at the internal checkpoints between the region and federal territory, and the genuinely unresolved question of whether the KRG portal will still exist next year.
The short answer
| Question | Answer as of 8 August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Does the KRG still issue its own visas? | Yes. visit.gov.krd was live and issuing when we checked on 8 August 2026. |
| Can I get one on arrival? | Country List A nationals, yes — at Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and land entry points. Country List B, no. |
| What does it cost? | 100,000 IQD administrative fee, roughly US$75. Non-refundable if refused. |
| How long is it good for? | Valid 90 days from issue, allows a 30-day stay. |
| Does it work in Baghdad? | No. It is a regional entry authorisation, not a national one. |
| Does a federal e-visa work in Erbil? | Yes. The federal visa covers the whole country, Kurdistan Region included. |
| Doing both halves of the country? | Get the federal e-visa from evisa.iq before you fly. Do not rely on the regional one. |
Why Iraq has two visa systems at all
The Kurdistan Region is a federal region recognised in Iraq’s 2005 constitution, with its own parliament, its own security forces and — relevant here — its own immigration practice at the entry points it controls. Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Duhok provinces sit inside it. Everything else, including Mosul and Kirkuk, is federal territory administered from Baghdad, whatever the map in your head says.
In practice this means the Peshmerga and Asayish control the region’s airports and its borders with Turkey and Iran, and the KRG Ministry of Interior’s Visa Department issues entry authorisations for those points. The legal basis is Directive No. 1 of 2021 on issuing electronic visas and residency cards in the Kurdistan Region, which is still the document the services portal cites. That directive is where the 100,000 IQD figure comes from, and it has not changed since.
None of this is a political statement. It is simply how entry works on the ground, and the practical consequence is that the document in your inbox is stamped by one authority and honoured by that authority’s officers, not by the other’s.
Country List A: who gets a Kurdistan visa on arrival
The KRG splits the world into two lists. Country List A nationals apply directly on the portal, pay by card, and receive the visa by email within minutes. They can also simply turn up at a Kurdistan Region entry point and be issued one there — this is the Kurdistan visa on arrival that federal Iraq withdrew in March 2025 and the region did not.
The KRG services portal lists 53 nationalities on List A. In full, they are:
| Group | Countries on List A |
|---|---|
| European Union | Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden |
| Rest of Europe | Albania, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Vatican |
| Americas and Pacific | Australia, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, United States |
| Asia | China, Iran, Japan, South Korea, Turkey |
| Middle East | Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates |
Two notes on that table. The KRG’s own English-language listing renders some country names oddly — Slovakia appears twice in the same line in the official text, and “Cambia” is presumably Gambia — so if your nationality is borderline, run it through the portal’s eligibility checker rather than trusting any list, ours included. And Iran appearing on List A is not the same as Iranian citizens entering federal Iraq visa-free, which they can; the two systems happen to align in that case.
Even on List A, applying online before you fly is now the sensible default. Airline check-in staff in Istanbul, Amman or Dubai are not visa officers, and there are documented cases of travellers being refused boarding because a ground agent did not believe visa on arrival existed. Turning up at the gate with a printed e-visa removes an argument you cannot win from a check-in desk.
Country List B: the guarantor route
Everyone not on List A is on List B, and getting a Kurdistan visa that way is a completely different process. There is no visa on arrival, no paying by card from your sofa, and no same-day issue. You must first find a guarantor registered with the KRG Ministry of Interior — in practice a law firm, a manpower company or a licensed tour operator inside the region — who agrees to sponsor your application.
The sequence goes like this. The guarantor gives you a sponsor code. You fill in the application on the portal and enter that code, then click “Submit to Guarantor” rather than paying yourself. Your sponsor receives the file, pays the fee on your behalf, and the application enters processing. The stated decision time is a maximum of five working days.
List B is long and includes India, Pakistan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, South Africa, Mexico, Chile, Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, along with most of Africa, Central America and the Caribbean. If you have read elsewhere that Indians and South Africans are “blacklisted” by the KRG, that is wrong — one widely circulated tour operator page says exactly this, and the official listing puts both squarely on List B. The route exists; it just requires a sponsor.
What a guarantor charges is not published anywhere official. One European operator quotes US$385 plus a US$2,500 refundable deposit for nationalities it cannot process through the standard channel; another quotes a flat US$250. Those are commercial prices for a service, not government fees, and they vary enormously. Ask any agency to itemise the 100,000 IQD administrative fee separately from their own handling charge before you pay anything.
What a Kurdistan visa costs, and how long it lasts
These three numbers get confused constantly, including by pages that rank on page one, because “valid for 90 days” and “you can stay 90 days” are not the same sentence.
| Item | Kurdistan Region | Federal Iraq (for comparison) |
|---|---|---|
| Government fee | 100,000 IQD administrative fee (~US$75) | 151,000 IQD visit visa (~US$114) or 206,000 IQD ordinary visa (~US$160) |
| Validity of the document | 90 days from issue — the window in which you must enter | 90 days (visit) or 60 days (ordinary) from issue |
| Permitted stay | 30 days from entry | 30 days (visit) or 60 days (ordinary) |
| Where it is valid | Kurdistan Region only | All of Iraq, Kurdistan Region included |
| On arrival? | Yes for List A | No — suspended 1 March 2025 for the 37 affected nationalities |
| Refund if refused | None. The fee is non-refundable. | None. |
You will see the Kurdistan fee quoted as US$70, US$75 and US$76 across different sites. They are all the same 100,000 dinars converted at slightly different rates on different days; there is no separate cheaper tier. One aggregator page currently states 110,000 IQD, which does not match the official directive — if you are charged that on arrival, ask for a receipt and query the difference. Several travellers over the years have reported that only Iraqi dinars are accepted at land crossings, so change money before you reach the border rather than assuming a card terminal.
Card payment on the portal itself is the other recurring headache. Iraqi payment processing trips a lot of European and North American bank fraud rules. Tell your bank before you apply, and have a second card from a different issuer ready. If the payment fails you do not lose the application; you lose the afternoon.
Applying on visit.gov.krd, step by step
The official portal is visit.gov.krd, run by the KRG Department of Information Technology on behalf of the Ministry of Interior. Nothing else is official. There is a thicket of commercial lookalike sites that will take your details and charge a markup for filling in the same form, exactly as there is around the federal portal.
What you need before you start
A passport valid for at least six months with one blank page. A digital scan of the passport’s first page only, in colour, JPEG, between 10 kB and 5 MB, at least 800 by 600 pixels, in landscape orientation — wider than it is tall. And a passport-style photo in portrait orientation, at least 400 by 600 pixels, taken in the last six months against a plain white or off-white background, with your face filling 70 to 80 per cent of the frame. No glasses unless you have a signed medical statement. No hats except daily religious dress.
Those specifications are stricter than most e-visa systems and they are enforced. A rejected photo is the commonest reason an application stalls.
The flow
You pick your document type and issuing authority, and the portal shows only the visa types available to your nationality. You complete the form in English characters only — the portal is explicit that wrong data may cause rejection outright rather than a request to correct it. You upload the photo and passport scan, review the summary, accept the terms and save.
An email verification code arrives. You have three days to verify, or the application expires and you start again. After verifying you reopen the application, check it once more, then either pay by card (List A) or submit to your guarantor (List B). List A applicants normally have the visa in their inbox within minutes. Print it in colour and carry the paper; immigration officers at Erbil expect to see it.
If your visa is refused, you can reapply once you have fixed whatever caused the refusal — unless the reason was an entry ban, in which case reapplying will not help. And if the issued visa contains an error, it cannot be amended. The KRG cancels it and you apply again, with new fees. Check every field on the summary screen before you submit.
Where a Kurdistan visa is issued on arrival
On where a Kurdistan visa can be picked up in person, the KRG’s wording is that a List A national “can obtain an e-visa directly at any point of entry in the Kurdistan Region upon arrival”. In practice that means the two international airports and the region’s land crossings with Turkey and Iran.
| Entry point | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Erbil International (EBL) | Air | The main gateway. Visa desk before passport control. |
| Sulaymaniyah International (ISU) | Air | Second airport, fewer connections, same process. |
| Ibrahim Khalil | Land, Turkey | Opposite Habur. The one Turkish-border point the FCDO carves out of its “against all travel” zone. |
| Haji Omaran | Land, Iran | East of Erbil via the Choman road, high and scenic. |
| Bashmakh and Parwezkhan | Land, Iran | Sulaymaniyah province crossings. |
| Kirkuk Airport | Air | Federal territory, not KRI. We could not confirm reports of 60-day issue here — do not plan around it. |
That last row deserves an explicit flag. Kirkuk sits in a disputed governorate under federal control, and it is one of the provinces the FCDO advises against all travel to. Claims that it issues longer Kurdistan Region visas circulate, but we could not verify them against any KRG or federal source, and we would not build an itinerary on them.
The asymmetry, stated plainly
This section exists because it is the thing that lands people in trouble, and because most of page one either fudges it or gets the direction backwards.
A federal Iraqi e-visa issued through evisa.iq is valid throughout Iraq, including Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Duhok. You can land at Baghdad, drive or fly north, and enter the Kurdistan Region on that document without buying anything else.
A Kurdistan visa issued by the KRG is valid inside the Kurdistan Region only. It is not a national entry stamp. Crossing south into federal territory on one means you are, in the eyes of federal immigration law, in Iraq without having entered it — and that is a criminal matter, not an administrative one.
There is one wrinkle worth knowing if you plan to land at Erbil but want federal coverage. Several Iraqi operators report that the federal application form includes a box to tick — “visa and entry authority from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq” — for applicants whose first point of entry is a KRI airport, and that those applicants pay the online federal fee plus 100,000 IQD in cash on arrival. We have not been able to confirm that wording on the official portal, so treat it as an operator-reported detail: if you are applying federally and arriving at Erbil, read the entry-point question on the form carefully and ask your airline or a licensed agency rather than guessing.
The permissive claim, and why we are not publishing it as fact
Since early 2025 a number of well-read travel blogs and tour operators have stated that a Kurdistan visa now permits onward travel into federal Iraq — to Mosul, Kirkuk and even Baghdad — for those nationalities that are eligible for the federal e-visa. One widely cited guide says exactly this and dates the change to January 2025.
We could not find a single official Iraqi or KRG source confirming it. Not on evisa.iq, not on visit.gov.krd, not in the services portal entry for visa issuance, not in any Council of Ministers decision we could locate. The restrictive rule is what both governments’ own material still describes, and the restrictive rule is what we are publishing.
What can happen if you get this wrong
The clearest account we have found is a reader comment posted on 9 May 2025 under one of the guides making the permissive claim. The traveller wrote that he had flown Erbil to Baghdad on a Kurdistan visa, was not stamped at Baghdad airport, assumed this reflected the new rules — and was arrested four days later at the Haydariyah checkpoint north of Najaf on a charge of unauthorised entry into Iraq. A judge found him innocent, because he had entered the country legally at Erbil. He still spent a week in jail while the case was processed, and wrote that it could easily have been two.
We cannot independently verify that account and we are not presenting it as court record. But it is specific, dated, first-hand and entirely consistent with the written rules, which is more than can be said for the claim it was responding to. It also illustrates the mechanism precisely: the problem is not usually the airport you fly into, it is the checkpoint on a road three days later, staffed by federal police who scan your passport and find no federal entry record.
The merger that has been approved but not implemented
Here is the part nobody writing about this seems willing to say out loud.
On 30 September 2025 Iraq’s Council of Ministers, chaired by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, approved the federal e-visa platform as the single portal for issuing all Iraqi entry visas. The decision explicitly extended to the Kurdistan Region: the KRG would stop issuing visas independently, all entry visas would carry a mandatory health insurance certificate issued through the federal platform, no ministry or KRG representation could issue a visa without that certificate, and fee revenue would flow to Iraq’s Health Insurance Authority.
That was more than ten months ago. When we loaded visit.gov.krd on 8 August 2026, it was live, the application flow was open, the services portal entry had been updated in February 2026, and List A nationals were still being issued visas in minutes. The merger has been approved. It has not been implemented.
We do not know why, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. The most likely explanations are the ordinary ones — the Erbil–Baghdad revenue arguments that shape most federal-regional questions, plus the practical difficulty of migrating a working system. What matters for you is the practical instruction, which is short:
- The regional route works today. It worked on 8 August 2026.
- It is scheduled to be absorbed into the federal platform, and could stop working with little notice.
- Check both visit.gov.krd and evisa.iq before you pay for anything, and check again a week before you fly.
- If you have any doubt at all, the federal e-visa is the resilient choice. It survives the merger by definition.
Anyone telling you confidently what the position will be in six months is guessing. So are we — the difference is that we are telling you it is a guess.
The internal boundary: checkpoints between Kurdistan and federal Iraq
There is no line on the map marked “border” between the Kurdistan Region and the rest of Iraq, and there is no customs post. There is something more ambiguous: a belt of jointly and separately manned checkpoints across the disputed territories, where Peshmerga and Asayish positions give way to federal police and army positions over the course of a few kilometres.
The main crossing points a traveller meets are these.
| Route | What sits on it | What to expect |
|---|---|---|
| Erbil–Kirkuk | Altun Kupri (Pirde), a jointly manned post with both federal police and Kurdish forces | Everyone stops, locals included. Passport shown at one window, scanned and registered at another. |
| Erbil–Mosul via Khazir | The main road west into Ninawa province | Peshmerga on the eastern side, federal forces on the western. The most-reported refusal point. |
| Makhmour road | Southern approach towards Federal-controlled Ninawa and Salah al-Din | Less used by visitors; still a hard boundary. |
| Sulaymaniyah–Kirkuk | Eastern equivalent of the Altun Kupri route | Same registration procedure. |
| Erbil–Baghdad by air | Domestic flight, but with a passport check on arrival | Not a bypass. Officers still look for a federal entry record. |
What the officers actually ask is mundane. Passport. Where did you enter Iraq. Where are you going, who are you travelling with, where are you staying tonight. Sometimes a photograph of the passport page, sometimes a scan into a laptop, occasionally a phone call to somebody more senior while you wait. It is bureaucratic rather than adversarial, and the friction rises sharply during security alerts and around major religious dates. A Kurdistan visa in a passport heading south is the one thing guaranteed to slow the conversation down.
The single thing that determines how it goes is whether your visa matches the direction you are travelling. Vetting is tight on the Kurdistan-bound side because the Asayish are screening for people the region does not want in it, and tight on the federal-bound side because federal police are screening for exactly the mismatch described above. We have written more about what these stops are like in our guide to the checkpoints you will meet on Iraqi roads.
Planning a trip that covers Erbil and Baghdad
This is the itinerary most people actually want: a few days in the mountains and the Erbil bazaar, then Baghdad, then the shrine cities or the south. It is a good trip. The visa side of it is simple as long as you decide in the right order.
- Buy the federal e-visa first, from evisa.iq, before you book anything non-refundable. It covers the entire country and removes the whole problem. Our step-by-step walkthrough of the federal e-visa application covers the form, the documents and the processing times.
- Do not buy a regional visa as well. You do not need one, and holding both does not upgrade anything.
- Decide your entry airport second, not first. Cheap Erbil flights via Istanbul or Dubai are tempting, but check the entry-point question on the federal form before you commit.
- Build slack into the itinerary. Iraqi airspace has closed at short notice more than once in 2026, and EASA’s bulletin CZIB-2026-05, issued 8 July 2026 and running to 31 August, advises operators not to use the Baghdad flight information region. Never book a same-day onward international connection.
- Fly the Erbil–Baghdad leg rather than driving it unless you have a reason not to. The road runs through provinces every Western government advises against travel to, and the flight is under an hour.
If you are going the other way — landing in Baghdad and heading north — nothing extra is required. Your federal visa gets you into the Kurdistan Region. Our sample Iraq itineraries show how the two halves fit together across one, two and three weeks, and the guide to getting around Iraq covers the shared taxis, domestic flights and intercity buses that link them.
Exemptions, bans and edge cases
Passports showing an Iraqi place of birth
This is buried in the KRG’s own service description and almost nobody repeats it: if your passport or travel document shows a place of birth in Iraq, you do not need a visa for the Kurdistan Region and you are admitted free of charge. For diaspora travellers returning on a foreign passport, that is a genuinely useful saving. Carry documentation of the connection anyway.
Israeli nationals
Israeli citizens are barred from entering or transiting Iraq, including without leaving the aircraft. That applies to the Kurdistan Region as well as federal territory. Holders of other passports who were born in Israel have reported additional questioning; the KRG has no published policy on this and outcomes appear to vary by officer.
Iranians and Turks
Iranian citizens can currently enter Iraq visa-free, the only nationality able to do so. Turkish nationals get 30 days visa-free, but the sources conflict on the age bands — one says under 15 only, another says under 15 and over 50. We could not resolve that conflict against a primary source, so if you hold a Turkish passport, confirm with the consulate rather than relying on any web page including this one.
Journalists and NGO staff
On the federal side, journalists and NGO workers are not eligible for the e-visa at all and must apply through an Iraqi embassy or consulate. The KRG has historically been more accessible for media, but working in the region on a tourist entry is a bad idea and press accreditation is handled separately by the KRG’s Department of Media and Information. If you are travelling for work of any kind, sort it before you fly.
Turning a visit into residency
A KRG visit visa can be extended twice, 30 days each time, on payment of a fee and with an approved reason, on application by the traveller in person. Visit visas can be converted into residence cards for family reunification. Tourist visas cannot be converted into residence cards without Ministry of Interior approval. Overstaying carries a penalty specified in the visa code contract, which for guaranteed applicants falls on the guarantor as well as on you.
What your government says, and why it matters more than the visa
Getting hold of a Kurdistan visa is the easy part. Whether you should use it is a separate question, and your own government’s advice has consequences that outlast the trip.
The FCDO’s Iraq advice was regionalised on 22 July 2026 and remains current. The entire Kurdistan Region sits in the “advise against all but essential travel” band, not the more severe “against all travel” band that covers Kirkuk, Ninawa, Salah al-Din, most of Anbar and much of Diyala. Within the region there are three carve-outs the FCDO does place in the higher band: within 5km of the Turkish border except the Ibrahim Khalil crossing, the Amedi Mountains Region, and within 5km of the Iranian border north of the Choman–Haji Omaran road.
The US State Department is at Level 4, Do Not Travel, reissued 2 March 2026, and does not regionalise. On the same date it ordered non-emergency US government employees to leave Iraq. US government personnel in Baghdad are prohibited from using Baghdad International Airport.
The practical consequence is insurance. Standard travel insurance is void if you travel against your government’s advice, and “all but essential travel” counts. That is not a technicality — it is the difference between a medical evacuation being covered and costing six figures. Specialist high-risk cover exists and is the only sensible route; we go through what it does and does not include in our guide to travel insurance for Iraq, and the current state of both advisories is summarised in the Iraq travel advisory explainer.
Context that gets lost in the advisory language: the 2026 regional escalation has been real, with strikes across Iraq since 8 July and eight explosive-laden drones downed over Erbil on 15 July. It is also true that the thing most likely to hurt a visitor is a road accident — Iraq recorded 2,351 road deaths in 2025. Both facts belong in the same paragraph. Our assessment of how safe the Kurdistan Region actually is goes through the picture properly.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Kurdistan visa still available in 2026?
Yes. We loaded visit.gov.krd on 8 August 2026 and the portal was live and issuing. The Council of Ministers approved folding it into the federal platform in September 2025, but nearly a year on that has not happened. Check the portal yourself shortly before you travel.
Can I travel from Erbil to Mosul on a Kurdistan visa?
Officially no. Mosul is in Ninawa province, which is federal territory, and the regional visa does not cover it. Some travellers report crossing without incident and others report being turned back at Khazir; the outcome depends on the officer. Separately, the FCDO advises against all travel to Ninawa, which voids most insurance. If you want to see the city, our Mosul guide and the accompanying safety assessment explain what that involves.
Does a federal Iraqi e-visa cover Erbil?
Yes. This is the direction that works. A federal e-visa is a national entry authorisation and the Kurdistan Region is part of Iraq, so you can move between the two on one document. That is why anyone doing a combined trip should buy the federal visa.
How much is the Kurdistan visa on arrival?
100,000 Iraqi dinars, roughly US$75 depending on the rate. The figure comes from Directive No. 1 of 2021 and has not changed. Quotes of US$70, US$75 and US$76 are all the same fee. Bring dinars for land crossings; card acceptance is not guaranteed.
How long does a Kurdistan visa take to come through?
Country List A applicants normally receive it by email within minutes of payment. Country List B applications, which go through a registered guarantor, take up to five working days after the guarantor pays. Build in more than that if you are applying near a public holiday.
Do I need a Kurdistan visa if I already have a federal e-visa?
No. Buying both is a waste of money. One federal e-visa covers the whole country. The only situation where you might pay a second fee is the operator-reported case of applying federally while arriving first at a KRI airport, where a 100,000 IQD payment on arrival is said to apply.
Can I extend a Kurdistan visa without leaving?
Yes, in principle. The KRG allows a visit visa to be extended for 30 days, twice, against a fee, if the reason for the extension is approved, and the application must be made by the traveller in person at the residency office. It is not automatic and it is not quick.
What happens if my Kurdistan visa application is refused?
You lose the fee — it is explicitly non-refundable. You may reapply after correcting whatever caused the refusal, unless the reason was an entry ban, in which case a fresh application will not help. Errors on an issued visa cannot be amended; the visa is cancelled and you start over with new fees.
Is Erbil airport still operating normally?
It has been operating through 2026, but Iraqi airspace has closed at short notice more than once this year and drones were downed over Erbil in July. Airlines have cancelled at little notice. Assume disruption is possible, and read our notes on when to visit Iraq before fixing dates.
Final thoughts
The Kurdistan visa is one of the easier entry documents in the Middle East to obtain and one of the easiest in the world to misuse. Ten minutes on a government portal, a hundred thousand dinars, a PDF in your inbox — and a document that stops being valid at a checkpoint two hours’ drive from where it was issued, with consequences that are legal rather than administrative.
So the decision is not really “which visa is cheaper”. It is “what is my route”. If the answer is Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, Duhok, the mountains and back out the way you came, the regional route is fine and it is quick. If the answer includes anything south or west of the Kurdistan Region, buy the federal e-visa and be done with it. And whichever you choose, load both portals a week before you fly, because the system that exists today has been formally scheduled for abolition and nobody has told the public when.
If you are still working out the shape of the trip, start with our complete guide to Iraqi visas, which sets both systems side by side, then read up on travelling in Iraqi Kurdistan for what the region is actually like once you are through the airport. If you would rather not manage any of this yourself, the operators running trips in Iraq handle visa paperwork as standard, and the wider Iraq travel guide covers everything from where to stay to what a trip costs. Travellers arriving on a federal document should also read what changed when visa on arrival was withdrawn, and check the general entry requirements for Iraq alongside the practical travel tips and the laws visitors most often fall foul of.
Photo credits
Erbil Citadel by Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh (CC BY-SA 4.0). Ibrahim Khalil border crossing by Joao Leitao (CC BY-SA 3.0). Erbil International Airport by EIA Airport (CC BY 4.0). Sulaymaniyah at night by Sarbast T. Hameed (CC BY-SA 4.0). Iraqi Airways Airbus A321 at Erbil by Jeffrey Beall (CC BY-SA 2.0). Amedi panorama by Hardscarf (CC BY-SA 4.0). All images via Wikimedia Commons.
