Description
Issuance of residency cards to foreigners who come to the Kurdistan Region through residency and visa companies. After receiving a visit visa, they can apply for a residency card to stay in the Kurdistan Region. This card is valid for six months or one year.
Responsible Entity
Responsible Entity Information
Address of citizens to visit provincial residence directorates
Website
Office Hours
(8:30) a.m. to (2:30) p.m.
Erbil Residence Directorate
Erbil / (32) Park / Next to Passport Building
Email: erbil.residence@moi.gov.krd
Email: erbil.residence@moi.gov.krd
07515192466
Sulaimani Residence Directorate
Sulaimani / Nargis neighborhood / near Sulaimani Police Directorate / behind Binayi petrol station
Email: info@sulresidence.com
Email: info@sulresidence.com
05033190574
Duhok Residence Directorate
Duhok / Shindukha
07503765276
Conditions
Foreigner must be eighteen (18) years of age or older.
Testing for communicable diseases (AIDS, B and C hepatitis, malaria, Bilharzia).
The validity period of the foreigner’s passport shall not be less than six (6) months.
A foreigner shall not be guilty of any shameful act and shall not be subject to any comment.
Whatever company issued the entry visa for the foreigner, the same company must issue the residency card for the foreigner, except for lawyers who are classified as consultants or practitioners. According to Article 7 of Directive No. (1) of 2021, the Directive on issuing visas and residency cards.
Fill out the ensuring application form and pledge according to the type of sponsorship.
This card is valid for six months or one year, after which it must be renewed. A foreigner can renew his residency card for up to nine years and annually.
Ensuring for a foreigner shall not be ensured by an employee of the Internal Security Forces or Peshmerga or security employee or an officer or employee of the Iraqi Federal Government. and must fill out Pledge Form No. 15, Foreigner for Household Service.
A person shall not ensure more than three (3) foreigners, but if they are members of the same family, according to Article 1, paragraph (10), there may be more than three, and this applies only to one family.
A foreigner must apply for a residency card before the expiry of his visa.
Each residency and visa company must issue residency cards or exit stamps to foreigners as many visas as it receives each month.
If the transaction is a renewal of the residency card, he must apply for the renewal of the residency card before the expiration of the expiration date, otherwise he will be subject to a late penalty of (20,000) twenty thousand dinars per day.
residency and visa companies can sponsor foreigners and the company bears all legal and financial responsibility for the foreigner.
Work will be done on the statement No. (1) of 2021 on the issuance of electronic visas and residency cards, and the Foreigners residency Law No. (76) of 2017 of the Iraqi House of Representatives.
Documents
The identity of the lawyer representing the company to conduct the transaction.
Passport of foreign person.
Form No. 18 (A,B).
Form No. (20) or letter from the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.
Employment contracts.
Company application to request the issuance of a residency card to a foreigner.
If the transaction is a renewal of the old residency card is requested.
Time
seven (7) days to ten (10) days.
Price
According to Directive No. (1) of 2021, the following guidelines for issuing electronic visas and residency permits in the Kurdistan Region:
For foreigners who do not need to obtain a visa in advance to enter the Kurdistan Region:
- (300,000) three hundred thousand dinars in exchange for conversion of visit visa to residency card.
- (150,000) one hundred and fifty thousand dinars for issuing a residency card.
- (25,000) Twenty-five thousand dinars residency administration fee for applying for residency permit.
For foreigners who need to obtain a visa in advance to enter the Kurdistan Region:
- (1,000,000) One million conversion of visit visa to residency card.
- (150,000) one hundred and fifty thousand dinars for issuing a residency card.
- (25,000) Twenty-five thousand dinars residency administration fee for applying for residency permit.
For residency card renewal:
- (150,000) one hundred and fifty thousand dinars in exchange for renewal of all types.
- (25,000) Twenty-five thousand dinars residency administrative fee for renewal of residency.
The penalty for late renewal of residency card for each day of delay is (20,000) twenty thousand dinars.
For foreigners who do not need to obtain a visa in advance to enter the Kurdistan Region:
- (300,000) three hundred thousand dinars in exchange for conversion of visit visa to residency card.
- (150,000) one hundred and fifty thousand dinars for issuing a residency card.
- (25,000) Twenty-five thousand dinars residency administration fee for applying for residency permit.
For foreigners who need to obtain a visa in advance to enter the Kurdistan Region:
- (1,000,000) One million conversion of visit visa to residency card.
- (150,000) one hundred and fifty thousand dinars for issuing a residency card.
- (25,000) Twenty-five thousand dinars residency administration fee for applying for residency permit.
For residency card renewal:
- (150,000) one hundred and fifty thousand dinars in exchange for renewal of all types.
- (25,000) Twenty-five thousand dinars residency administrative fee for renewal of residency.
The penalty for late renewal of residency card for each day of delay is (20,000) twenty thousand dinars.
Procedures
First, the residency and Visa Affairs Company submits the application through the online residency card application system and scans all the documents.
After 72 working hours, the approval of the residency card is issued online through the same system to the residency and Visa Affairs Company. The foreigner can visit the central laboratory for blood tests.
After (48) working hours, the test results will be returned to the relevant residency Directorate, The foreign visits the room for issuing residency cards to foreigners to verify the results of the test.
He visits the accounting room, in order to pay the prescribed fees.
He visits the control room, in order to verify the final transaction.
Visits the residency card collection room in the presence of the foreigner, in order to collect the residency card and complete the transaction.
Application Form
پێویستە فۆرمی داواکاری هاوپێچ بکرێت، ئەگەر هەبێت.
Legal Documantation
External Services
پێویستە خزمەتە پەیوەندیدارەکان دەستنیشان بکرێن، ئەگەر هەبن.
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Service ID
MOI-63
Topic
Last updated
07-04-2024
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