British Embassy in Baghdad

Iraqi applicants for UK visas — Visit, Student, Skilled Worker, Family — submit biometrics and documents at the designated UK Visa Application Centre, with decisions issued by UK Visas and Immigration. The Student route runs at meaningful volume: the UK has a long-standing Iraqi student community, particularly in medicine and engineering. The British Embassy in Baghdad operates from the International Zone — the secured central district that hosts most foreign missions in the city — and the security frame shapes how the post works in practice: in-person services by appointment only, controlled access, with the FCDO online form handling most first-contact enquiries. The embassy provides consular services for British nationals across Iraq (passport matters, notarial work, emergencies); the British Consulate-General in Erbil covers the Kurdistan Region under its own arrangement. The current FCDO travel advice for Iraq is essential pre-trip reading.