Trybyl Border | Customs and Immigration

Note the opening hours.The Jordanian border is open daily from 8:00 AM to 5 PM

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Took 7 hours with a guy who helped us and demanded 20 USD at the end.

Be offensive otherwise it takes longer. Computer was down we pushed that we only need carnet stamps and they can add info later in their laptop.

75 USD Visa
22 USD Car insurance
10 USD for random stamp

NO -> 100 USD import fee for the car surprisingly!

19 USD for 7 days unlimited internet at the shop next to the Amazon supermarket.

Go to 2nd petrol station after the border. First one is expensive 2nd one 0,32 euro petrol liter.

No problem to sleep at the border.

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Open on Fridays and convoy also going on Fridays.

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Everything as described. My recommendation: on the Iraqi side of the boarder, tell the officers that you first want to exchange money. Go to the last supermarket on the right side (after the restaurant). There you will get a good rate (nearly like in the cities) when you bring new 100 Dollar bills (we got 1$ = 1.450 IQD). Then pay everything in IDQ during the process. You will get everything a little cheaper and they won’t scam you!

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Jordan > Iraq
Exit fee Jordan 10JOD p.P + 25JOD for the car.
Iraq we paid
75 USD + 2 USD service fee per visa.
5000 dinar for copies
25.000 dinar car customs
40.000 dinar caravan insurance
You can exchange dollar to Iraq dinar at the border.
We would recommend doing the exit and entry in one day. Sleep at the border and then take the Escort in the morning. For us the border only opened at 8.30. With all the waiting and switching vehicles we were at about 8 in the evening in Bagdad. All very friendly.

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Exit jordan easy and quick. About 30 Minutes, 10jod per person an 25jod for car exit fee in cash.
Iraq site chaotiq and without any plan. Lot of different steps, seems like offices change every time. One guy speaks german. Hes trying to make friends but wants to rip you off.
The real prices are 75$ for Visa (they ask for 80$, just be hard and say no), then 22$ for car insurance and in the and 25‘000 Dinar cash for carnet, checking and roadtax. As they had no electricity in the office in the morning we had to copy our stuff in the copyshop, witch was 5000 dinar for 4 person, i think this is normaly not to pay.
At the area there are several shops. Next to the restaurant is a supermarket selling unlimited simcard for 7 days for 16$. Also dollar exchange in the next supermarket.

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The border goes through numerous formalities but you can sometimes take an intermediary for a bribe.
La frontière se passe avec les nombreuses formalités mais vous pouvez parfois prendre un intermédiaire moyenant bakchich.

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It took me 12 hours from Baghdad to the border on a motorcycle, and I think I was lucky and got through fast. Recommend starting at 5 or 6 in the morning from Baghdad, to arrive before night. Use highway 1, not 11. They won't let you through on that one. I had 13 different vehicles escorting me for 400 km. All very friendly and nice, but it takes time! Bring water and food.

The Jordanian border closes in the afternoon, so you'll have to stay the night at the border. Go to customs they'll direct you to a place. They have some basic rooms for free, but I slept in the mosque. They won't let you camp with a tent. In a car should be fine I think.

Iraq exit.
Start around 8:30 am. They'll guide you through and it was quite easy. I paid 25.000 dinar for customs exit, might be more for a car? Have money ready, you can change leftovers on the Jordan side. I entered with an import document from Kurdistan, so needed that for exit. I guess they'll stamp your CDP if you entered with that.

Jordan entry.
It was a confusing time consuming chaos. Very inefficient, but you'll get through. Custom checks first, luggage and x-ray.
Then go change money at the money changer 100 meters further down (100 usd was 70 JOD there so decent rate). There's no ATM so bring cash!
Then do immigration. I had a Jordan pass, so didn't pay for a visa (I had to insist!). Think the visa is 40 JOD if you don't have it. Next get insurance. I paid 27 JOD for minimum insurance for a month for a motorcycle. Not sure if more for a car? Now go to customs and pay 20 JOD for some custom document. Again, that was for a motorcycle.
All done. You can buy a sim card next to the money changer. 12 JOD for 12 GB or 14 JOD for 45 GB. Umniah was recommended.

Tip: make sure to fill up your vehicle with fuel on Iraqi side. Will save you a lot! Also, it's legal to bring in one liter of alcohol and it's much cheaper in Iraq. Same with cigarettes. Good luck :)

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ATTENTION Jordan > Iraq:
because of the gaza conflict, the border got closed for tourists in shared taxis. You can not cross this border on foot, so hitchhiking is also not an option. dont know if the same applies for tourists in own cars. I lost 2 full days trying to cross this fogging border. And failed. Half of ruweished town tried to help me, but the officers didn't allow me to go to iraq. Rebels are striking on the iraqi side of the road and are considered to be dangerous for the tourists. This is something new, as only one month before (before the gaza crisis) the border was open for everyone. Better inform yourself good before coming here, its very far from everything.

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From Jordan to Irak

1. Bring enough cash !

Jordan Side : 35 JOD exit tax for the vehicule and visa tax

Irak side :
77 USD for the Visa
150 USD for the bike and insurance

Cash for food and gas : there is no ATM until Baghdad

2. Be prepared for a long and unclear process on iraqi side

It took me 5 hours to clear the process on the iraqi side

Friendly staff: there is someone who will help you to move from place to place. There is tons of paper to be signed by many different people.

3. Spend the night there

I think the best option is to arrive there in the afternoon. complete the process by the evening and sleep there (in a tent or close to the mosq). Start early the next morning to make sure to arrive in Baghdad not too late.

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Iraq > Jordan

Exit Iraq was easy because we slept yesterday night at the border so we made first passport check and vehicle inspection with a dog. This morning : new inspection with dog, passport check, CPD check for the truck and go. (1 hour)

Entry to Jordan
First passport check and vehicle inspection with dogs.
New passport check and you have to fill a form. Then vehicle and passenger inspection. After : visas, insurance, customs with CPD, dog's passport check and after 3 hours we can go.

Costs : 40JOD for each kid visa (for adults we bought Jordan pass, 100€ per person)
Insurance 1 month : 100 JOD
X-ray (dog inspection for us) : 20JOD

! No visa card so be sure to have enough money to change.

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We arrived at the Jordanian border crossing at 16.30 and they refused to let us in. Border is closed in the afternoon.

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Attention, the visa costs are 75$ not 77$. This tell me a man from costume.

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Border Jordan to Irak 5hours in total.

Jordan exit: 1h (pretty easy and straightforward. First small office in the middle of the car lanes under the shades, then customs (pay 25jd for road tax), then departure immigration.)

Iraq entry: 4h (chaotic and exhausting as every iraqi border)

First gate with quick car check.
Then drive to the shaded car inspection area. Quick car inspection & signature on CdP.
Then drive to customs (big building on the right with trees infront).
They will do some paper work and add your dates to the computer. You will get a white dinA4 paper.
Then go back to immigration (building on the left side coordinates next to big shaded area where you have been before). There they will do your visa. 77$ pP.
Then go to „land transportation“ office. Here you have to pay 100$ per car for temporary car importation (they don‘t take old dollar bills).
Next to the office (left door) is another small office where you have to bring copies of some of your documents (they can do the copies in the land transportation office).
Then go to the insurance near land transportation office. Car insurance 1 week 30.000dinar or 22$.
Then go back to customs.
Pay at the cashier 10$ or 15.000dinar road tax (First door on the left).
Then go to the „computer office“ next door on the right. There they will do some paper work and copies.
In another small office they will do paper work again.
Then go to the final office (big boss) to get your „gate pass“ - very important!! (Small paper).

You can exchange money and buy sim cards at the shops int he middle lane. (Sim card: 17.000dinar for 5gb/week (20gb/month). Attention they will try to scam you!

If it‘s late they won‘t let you go. The highway is closed during night.
So you have to camp at the border area.

Then continue to the gate. (Border will open at 7 am. but sometimes at 8 or 9)
Last car inspection at the first shade. They will do copies of your papers & documents again.
Then drive to the next shade - this is the last gate. Give them your passports and gate pass.
Then you are free to go.

Note: there is no right or wrong order. Sometimes you do the visa paper first, sometimes you do the customs papers first. It all depends on the staff and their motivation.
Take it easy. They are friendly. But be aware of scammers. And be prepared to spend A LOT of time at this border and to run from one office to the other. Everything is chaotic and without system.

Now during ramadan half of the staff were sleeping during day and a lot of offices were closed. So it was even more chaotic because they had to search and wake up the needed staff.

After about 1km there is the first check point. There they will decide if you need to be escorted or if you can go alone.

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Everything like described before. Car insurence 40.000 one week. Money change JD and $ in the shops.
3-4 hours without helper (they wanted 50$).
We went without escort to a Truckstop near AR Rutbah for sleeping.

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Not much to ad. Except that we got the visa on arrival as swiss citizens. (Jordan to Irak) It took us 4 hours to cross and everyone was helpful.

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Visa on arrival
Paid 100 USD Road Tax , Visa 77 USD , Motorcycle Insurance 7 days 30 USD
Road to Baghdad is open from 8 and closed night
I camped with tent in the border area

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We (Swiss passports) crossed the border from Jordan to Iraq on February 2, 2023. Swiss citizens can again obtain visa on arrival. The diplomatic case has been solved.
Visa on arrival USD 76 per person, manifest (TIP) USD 100, insurance USD 30, road tax (?) IQD 15000.
Money change in one of the shops in the border areas.
The road from the border to Baghdad is closed between 4 pm and 8 am.
We camped after the gate and started at 8 am with the commercial trucks.

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Important information for swiss people travelling from jordan to iraq: At the moment you can not get a visa on arrival here and also not a visa at the embassy of iraq im amman with a swiss passport. But the iraqi embassy can send your visa-application to bagdad to try it there. We did not do that because of a lack of time (they told us it will take around two weeks). Hopefully this problem will change in the future. It seems like iraq has some kind of a diplomatic problem with switzerland. But we still don't fully understand it. The swiss embassy in amman also couldn't help us, but they are informed now and will do some investigations on the case.

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Jordan to Iraq (french passport)

Jordan : We had to pay 10JOD per person and 25JOD for the car to exit the country. All the process was easy but long because of the lunch time I guess... It took us 1 hour and half.

Iraq : We arrived at 1pm and finished the papers around 7pm so we were allowed to sleep at the border (with toilets next to us 👌).
It was not really stressful but really long. A fixer helped us and we literally running all around the offices during 6 hours. A lot of papers... Everyone is really helpful but they don't speak English, even the fixer so we didn't really understood all the steps.

We payed : 76$ per person for the visa on arrival (validity: 2 months)
100$ for the car at the customs
25$ for 1 month insurance (We negociated a lot)
15000 IQD for another paper.

PS : At the end, don't forget to ask the gate pass (It took us 1.5 hours to get it the next morning 😅).

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This border is not visa on arrival anymore. We traveled from Turkey through Iraq to Jordan and then returned to Iraq assuming it was visa on arrival. We were lucky we had friends in Iraq we could call for help and got our visa at the border but the staff made it very clear to us that Iraq no longer provides visa's at this border, you need to get it in Amman.

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going from Jordan to Irak

0) get a PCR free negative test at the hospital
1) argument with the pre checkin guys about okay or not okay
2) car check, Passport check, pay 35JD for exit Jordan
3) drive to exit point (you need the white paper)

irak
0) pre check will ask you for money, DO NOT GIVE ANY
1) Visa they will ask for 200us$, tell them German pay 75us$ (honest)
2) car paper run, this will take rest of the day so just wait and smile.
3) manifest costs 100us$
4) insurance for 1 month is 30us$
5) something Paper 10us$ or 15k idr
6) they will ask for a deposit of 500 or 1000us$ tell them you exit thru other border

okay now it is 16 o'clock and the road is closed till 8am

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Time consuming border. Took us 5 hours from Iraq to Jordan.

Iraq exit:
step 1; K9 check.
step 2; passport pre check
step 3; car registration (there is a van with a guy who registrates numberplate and name.)
step 4; portacabin where you get a form with a stamp
step 5; drive further towards the more official border buildings
step 6; go into the building and fo a pre check for al the formalities for Jordan. They make pictures of EVERY document You need to enter Jordan and send that by WhatsApp to Jordan for a final aproval.
a: passport
b: car license
c: health ensurance card
d: pcr test result
e: qrc code visit jordan covid registration
e: iraqi car registation form (blue one)
after that your passport will be stamped.

Now finalice the car part.
you get a form with a stamp after checking the car documents and the car. with tgat form you must go to a building on the other side of the border area to pay for the car exit fee (15000 dinar). this will involve a half a dozen people with stamps, forms and copies. If you are lucky they bring you with a Hilux to this building. after the payment and formsluties the man in the Hilux will bring you back to your car. Handover the proof of payment and other forms with stamps. now you get a new form with stamp that you will need at the final police check.
Thats it and 2 hours later. drive to the Jordan side.

Jordan entry:
step 1: pcr test and check qrc visit jordan covid registration
step 2: k9 check inside
step 3: inside check
step 4: under-side check
step 5: personel check. you also get a important form. you have to collect stamps and signatures on this form.
step 6: x-ray car check
step 7: posible an extra inside check.

If you pass this timeconsuming 2 hour part you can change money, get your visa, pay road tax and insurance.
leave the border area after final police check and park outside for the night near the trucks. To avoid an aditional checks in the middle of the night prearange your stay with customs and police.

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