Getting and using an Iranian passport

Passports are issued in person at Police+10 offices (دفاتر پلیس+۱۰).

Bring your birth certificate (شناسنامه), national ID card, your last passport if you had one, and, for men, the smart military-service card.

Bring two 4x6 photos with a white background, taken within the last 6 months.

Married women need their husband's notarized permission; anyone under 18 needs notarized permission from their father or legal guardian.

Children under 6 must come to the office with a guardian. Every traveller, including newborns, needs their own passport.

A standard passport costs about 2.2 million toman in total (reported for 1405). Urgent issuance costs the same.

Payment is by bank card on the office's POS terminal only; no cash.

A pilgrimage (Karbala) passport is much cheaper: about 115,000 to 315,000 toman.

Normal issuance takes about 7 to 14 working days.

Urgent issuance takes about 2 to 3 working days, plus postal delivery.

There is no guaranteed one-day service, so apply well before you buy a ticket.

An Iranian passport is reported to be valid for 5 years from issue.

Check the expiry date before every trip: many countries will not let you in if the passport expires within the next 6 months (see the next section).

Most visa-free and visa-on-arrival destinations expect your passport to be valid for at least 6 months, plus a return ticket and travel insurance.

Turkey's foreign ministry advises 6 months of validity from arrival. Its legal minimum (Law 6458) is 60 days beyond the permitted stay, so 150 days for a 90-day visit.

These are general guidance, not one uniform law; the exact rule is set by each destination, so check the visa page for your country.

Married women still need their husband's consent to get a passport and to leave Iran. The head of the passport police confirmed this on 20 Tir 1405 (11 July 2026).

Consent registered for repeat exits with no time limit stays valid until the husband cancels it at a police office.

The consent is given as a notarized document (see the documents section).

Anyone under 18 needs consent from their father or legal guardian, given as a notarized document, to get a passport and travel.

Every child, including a newborn, needs their own passport; children are not added to a parent's passport.

Children under 6 must attend the Police+10 office with a guardian.

Men who have not finished military service need an exit permit (مجوز خروج) and must post a bail (وثیقه) in cash or as a bank guarantee. Applications go through Police+10 and the Sakha system (کد سخا).

Bail amounts in circulation, possibly outdated: about 15 million toman for tourism (up to 20 days), 3 million for pilgrimage to Iraq or Saudi Arabia (30 days, 50 for Hajj), 8 million for scientific trips (30 days) and 20 million for study abroad.

Coming back late forfeits the bail and brings a 6 to 12 month exit ban and absentee status.

In 1405 there was a time-limited scheme letting non-absent conscripts leave without bail for Atabat and Arbaeen pilgrimage during Muharram and Safar (applications 26 Khordad to 22 Mordad 1405 via Sakha). That window is over; outside it the normal pilgrimage bail applies.

Absentee conscripts (مشمولان غایب) cannot use any bail-free exit until they settle their status with the Conscription Organization.

Normal renewals can be filed semi-online through sakha.epolice.ir with a 'Dolat-e Man' (دولت من) login, if your fingerprints were recorded at Police+10 within the last year.

Urgent requests still need an in-person visit; the fee of about 2.2 million toman is the same for normal and urgent.

If you hold a valid pilgrimage passport from an earlier year, the passport police said in Tir 1405 that you may travel to Arbaeen with it.

Check the visa rule for your destination on this site and on the official link; rules for Iranian passports change often.

Pay the exit tax (عوارض خروج از کشور) before departure. It is charged per person, including infants, against each traveller's national ID, via the Sadad portal, apps such as Eva and Bale, cashless kiosks at airports and borders, or Bank Melli border branches.

Per the 1405 budget bill, the exit tax is 900,000 toman for the first trip of the Iranian year, 1,500,000 for the second and 2,200,000 for the third and later. Atabat (Iraq) pilgrims pay a flat 90,000 toman by air and 30,000 by land or sea.

The receipt is tied to your national code and valid only within the same Persian year. A cancelled flight does not refund it automatically; a refund can be requested through evat.ir if no exit was recorded.

Keep the passport-validity rule in mind: 6 months is the usual expectation at the destination.