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Kurdistan Region foreign student residence. A foreign student aged at least 18 with a Kurdistan Region education provider’s support can seek a renewable residence card.

Free, with the law behind every answer

Kurdistan Region foreign student residence

Student residence card for six months or one year, renewable; no independent work authorization established.

Who qualifies

You keep your U.S. citizenship.

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Does it fit your family?

One question, from the program’s own rules.

How old are you?

Not legal advice.

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What it takes.

Age
18 or older.
Time
The issuing authority decides the application after the complete sponsored file and prerequisite approvals are lodged.
Cost
Government charges are assessed under the issuing authority’s schedule; sponsor, translation and document costs are separate.
The hard part
Institution support and residence/health formalities after lawful entry.
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Citizens by 2038.

If your first permit is issued in 2027 and you keep living there, this is the road.

  1. 2027
    First residence permit

    1 year, renewable for 1 year at a time.

  2. 2037
    Apply for citizenship
  3. 2038
    Citizenship
Time away
Ten consecutive years of legal residence immediately before applying, reduced to five for a foreign spouse of an Iraqi citizen.
Two passports
Yes. You keep your U.S. citizenship.
  • Renewed legal student residence can contribute to Iraq’s ten consecutive years, subject to the separate nationality conditions.
  • How long the decision takes isn’t published; we allow a year.
The law behind these dates
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Living there.

Time you must spend there
The program sets no minimum number of days. Renewal still expects it to be your home.
Tax
Where you become tax resident follows the days you spend there and where your home is. We map it for your family before you move.

We never file a tax return. We tell you what applies and brief the professional who does.

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Start today.

  1. Get the Kurdistan Region institution’s study support and arrange its residence-card filing.Open services.gov.krd ↗
  2. Gather these documents.
    • The degree or admission letter, and proof of funds
    • Request your FBI Identity History Summary
    • Health cover for the move
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Postern can’t run this for you yet.

The official application forms, submission and recovery specification are not complete. Postern cannot run this application yet.

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