Can a Japanese citizen get a visa for Iran at the border from Pakistan?

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My Japanese friend tried this week in Islamabad (not near the border but better than nothing), at the Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Conclusion: It is hard to get, but not impossible!

  • The first time she tried, she was turned down.
  • The second time she tried even harder, and that worked!

She paid a Rs. 5000 visa fee.

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According to IATA's TimaticWeb database which most airlines check visa requirements against (which I accessed through Delta Airlines' site), visa-on-arrival in Iran is available for:

Holders of normal passports traveling as tourist can obtain a visa on arrival, for a max. stay of 15 days, provided:

  • holding an e-visa pre-approval code obtained via e-mail from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at: www.mfa.gov.ir; and
  • arriving at Chah-Bahar (ZBR), Gheshm (GSM), Kish (KIH), Mashad, (MHD) Esfahan (IFN), Shiraz (SYZ), Tabriz (TBZ) and Tehran Imam Khomeini International (IKA) or Tehran Mehrabad International (THR); and

  • holding a photograph, a copy of passport's biographical page and fee of between EUR 30 and EUR 80.

It would therefore seem obtaining visa-on-arrival is not possible at land borders.

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The site linked by Ankur gives the address and website of the Iranian embassy in Tokyo. Guess your friend didn't do his research properly:

JAPAN (TOKYO)

سفارت جمهوری اسلامی ایران - توکیو

Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tokyo, Japan

Titel of Diplomatic Office:Embassy

Head of Diplomatic Office:

Date of Establishment:1930

Address:3-10-32MINAMI-AZABU ,MINATO-KU

Address:TOKYO 106 JAPAN

P.O.Box:34489022

Country-Area-Code:0081

Tel.:033 - 34468011-34468015-34468014-34468013- 3446801

Fax:033 - 34462383

Emergency-Tel:

Consular Section:34468021-34468023 FAX CON.3448902

Homepage: tokyo.mfa.ir

E-mail:[email protected]

Online visa applications seem to be down at the moment, but the embassy should be able to help him out. If they say he can't get a visa, I doubt he'll get one by just turning up at some dusty border checkpoint and asking (and if they let him through after paying a few hundred dollars, he's going to have trouble with the first police or other security checkpoint that asks for his papers).

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