Iraqi and Iranian complain visa fee "exorbitant" and demanding their governments downwards

Iraqi and Iranian complain visa fee "exorbitant" and demanding their governments downwards

Editor: AB 09/16/2016 13:17

Long-Presse / Wasit

Complained a number of Iraqis and Iranians visiting Arrivals through Zurbatiyah port Wasit Province, on Friday, from entering their countries' feature, which amounts to $ 40 per person fee, with an enemy that the amount "significant and exhausts the shoulders of a lot of them," demanded the governments of their respective countries in coordination to cut the wages of visa .

Hussein said Dodkr, an Iranian visitor from near the scene of the city of Nishapur in an interview (range Press), "The rise of Iraqi visa fees that are supposed to get it when entering into Iraq for the purpose of a very high visit and at $ 40, a large sum compared to the Iranian currency "noting that" the high fees visa pays a large number of Iranian citizens to refrain from coming to Iraq, especially middle and low income earners. "

He called the Iranian visitor, "in coordination with the Iraqi government to reduce visa fees between the two countries."

For his part, he said his colleague, Ali Amiri, a suburb of the Iranian city of Kashan, said that "to obtain an entry visa for Iraq is through the Iraqi embassy in Tehran or through the consulates in a number of Iranian cities such as Qom and Mashhad and Kermanshah and Ahwaz and other provinces where they are present branches of the Iraqi consulates. "

He added in an interview with (long-Presse), that "the Iranian individual, as well as Iraq is the only one affected by the visa costs amounting to $ 40 being very high, and presumably the Governments of the two countries that are working to make the entry a quarter of this amount visa fee by virtue of the great convergence between the two countries."

In turn, said Abdul imams Abdul-Hamza, an Iraqi citizen of Wasit province, just returned from visiting the holy shrines in Iran, in an interview with (long-Presse), said that "getting too large Iranian visa fees and up to 70 thousand Iraqi dinars."

He said Abdul-Hamza, that "this amount is exaggerated where he takes the owners of companies and offices of travel of Iraqi citizens encounter obtaining the Iranian visa," noting that "adopted in the Iranian embassy amount is $ 40, a large sum especially for families numbering more than five people. "

He said Abdul-Hamza, that "a lot of news has been circulating for many times on the reduction of Iranian visa fees or canceled in exchange for lowering the Iraqi visa but so far did not get something little," pointing out that "the visa fees go all to the federal government without having to be there a certain percentage of these fees to the provinces where the border crossing points are located for the purpose of development and rehabilitation of those ports. "

For his part, called Mohammed Mehdi Iraqi Foreign Ministry, to "work to reduce Iranian visa fees being too high and unacceptable at a time when there is a large case of reciprocal of the daily travel between citizens of the two neighboring countries", calling for "open an Iranian consulate in Wasit province, due to its location Mehran near the port and the presence of a large movement of travel and trade exchanges across the executors of Mehran and Zurbatiyah. "

The Iranian authorities have announced more than a month now before its agreement with the Iraqi Foreign Ministry to open Iraqi consulates in a number of Iranian cities including Mazandaran and Ilam and others to facilitate the process of obtaining access to Iraq for those wishing a visa to visit the holy shrines where a private visit Arbain.

The director of the border crossing points Maj. Gen. Sami said the Sudanese (the eighth of September 2016) for the entry of a million visitors over the Iranian border port Zurbatiyah to perform visit Arafat in the holy city of Karbala.

The local officials in Wasit, Maysan, predicted before the start of a visit Arfa that nearly two million visitors are greeted by an Iranian executors of gray hair and Zurbatiyah during Eid al-Adha to perform visit Arafat in the holy city of Karbala.

The Zurbatiyah port (90 km east of Wasit), corresponding to the port Mehran Iranian province of Ilam (about 850 west of Tehran km) has witnessed during the past forty-day visit to enter some three million Iranian pilgrims to perform the visit, including about 500 thousand visitors entered without a visa after causing chaos in the Iraqi and Iranian ports, which is rejected by the Iraqi government and promised a violation of international charters and norms, stressing time not to repeat it.