Sulaymaniyah under snow-covered mountains, Iraq

Who needs a visa for Iraq?

Western Asia · Baghdad

Photo: Diyar Muhammed / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

Of 198 nationalities, 3 enter Iraq with no paperwork at all. The rest: 6 can get a visa at the border, 188 must be approved before they travel and 1 cannot travel there.

We have not found a Iraq government portal we can link to with confidence, so we link to none — a lookalike is worse than nothing. Apply through Iraq's own immigration service or its embassy.

What do you need?

Who needs what

Visa free 3

Nothing to apply for and nothing to pay before you travel.

eVisa (electronic visa) 188

A real visa application, made online instead of at an embassy. It is assessed, it takes days rather than minutes, and it can be refused.

Visa on arrival 6

Issued at the border rather than beforehand. Bring the fee in cash in the currency the border post accepts. It is a permission, not a guarantee.

No admission 1

A government policy, not a paperwork problem. No agent or service can work around it.

About Iraq

Region
Western Asia
Capital
Baghdad
Population
47,020,774 2025 · 34th of 197
Size
438,317 km² 58th largest of 199
Density
107 per km²
Languages
Arabic, Aramaic, Sorani
Currency
Iraqi dinar IQD

Capital, area, languages and currency from the open country dataset, pulled 21 September 2026. Population from the World Bank, series updated 13 July 2026. Density is calculated from the two figures above.