Based on practitioner experience, the Ministry of Interior has increased monitoring and enforcement of visa overstay rules for all visa types...

Foreign nationals residing or seeking to reside in Iraq can now schedule their mandatory blood tests online – via the governmental platform ‘urportal'.

Due to the deteriorating security situation in Iraq and the surrounding region, governments of several countries have issued travel warnings for their nationals regarding all travel to Iraq.

All foreign nationals seeking employment in Federal Iraq must now undergo a mandatory blood test and must also have their blood test authenticated at an Iraqi consulate prior to travel.

Effective immediately, foreign nationals can only obtain new employment visas in country every other year; on alternate years