Laissez-passer passport
It has a 15-day validity from the date of issuance, the holder has the right to enter Iraq once, and the Consul at the mission is permitted, if necessary, to add other countries and accompanying persons. It is granted in the following cases: –
1. When the citizen loses his/her/her passport and is willing to return to Iraq.
2. In case of withdrawing a citizen’s passport, and the citizen wants to return to Iraq.
3. In the case of deporting an indigent person to Iraq.
4 . In case a foreigner who enters Iraq from an unknown destination, or bears a nationality of a state that has no representation in Iraq and wants to travel to his/her state or a state that accepts him.
Documents relied upon to prove paragraph (1) above
A. National Identity Card.
B. Citizenship Certificate.
C. Copy of a valid passport.
The citizen fills out a form containing information about his/her name, birth date, place of residence, and former passport number, if any, his/her address in Iraq, and the names and addresses of people he/she knows.
Procedures for the issuance of a laissez-passer passport:
1. The information is written in the record issuance of the passport Laissez, appendix No. 1, as well as a photo of the citizen, in addition to indicating the documents on which the issuance of the passport was based.
2. The information and photo of the citizen and accompanying citizens are put in the passport; the photos are stamped with the Consulate stamp.
3. Writing the passport number and date of issuance and expiry (which is specified as a maximum of 15 days by the competent authorities in Iraq).
4. Notes in the visas page are put as follows: We have issued this passport for the loss of the passport of the holder to enable him to return to Iraq.
5. The passport is signed by the Consul and stamped with the consular stamp; the name of the Consul is written in both languages.
Notes: –
1 – This passport is used for a single trip, to return to Iraq, and is delivered at the point of entry into the Iraqi territories.
2 – The reason for issuing this document is to be included for granting the passport on one of its pages.