Iran tourist visa is issued in case you wish to travel to Iran for tourist purposes only. Almost everyone needs a visa to enter Iran, unless you have a Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Georgia, Malaysia, Syria and Venezuela passport in which case they’ll just stamp you in at the airport.
Complete the visa authorization form (? Online Application ) OR (? Download Application form) and email this form together with a copy of the first page of your passport +1 passport photo to our sales team (contact@surfiran.com).
For the U.S, Canadian and British passport holders only, all applications must be accompanied with a detailed resume.
Then we will submit applications to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Visa authorization codes generally take up to 2 weeks depending on your nationality (this process can be much longer for Canadian, British and US citizens).
When approved, we will notify you of your authorization code. Once you received the code please apply for your visa directly with the nominated Iranian embassy or Iran International Airports (see Step 2 for further instructions).
Now it’s time to obtain your Iran visa through the Iranian Embassy in your country OR Iran International Airports.
So once you have received your visa authorization code from SURFIRAN, immediately apply for your visa sticker in your nominated Iranian embassy OR Iran International Airports.
In your nominated Iranian embassy you will need to provide your passport, the visa fee, 2 passport photos and insurance policy. Some consulates may have different requirements. You must check this before submitting your application.
At the time of visa collection (In your nominated Iranian embassy OR Iran International Airports) applicants are required to consider making related consular visa collection and paperwork fee. The visa fee depends on your nationality from 30 Euros to 75 Euros.
These fees are separate of visa application fee to be paid to the travel agency.
Enter Iran within three months from the date of issue and stay up to the numbers of days granted. Generally, the Embassy issues single entries for stays up to 30, 60 or 90 days.
Please prepare 12.00 euros for compulsory health insurance fee at Iran Airport. Please always remember pay with an exact cash amount. Credit cards are not accepted for payments made in Iran.
You can extend it from the Police Department of Aliens Affairs in a major Iranian city. The process usually takes only about one day.
The extension of your visa is based on the initial duration: if you had a 30-day visa, you can extend it for an additional 30 days. If you had a 15-day visa, then you can only extend it for another 15 days, and so on.
