The Center for Foreign Nationals and Immigrants Affairs in Iran has recently announced that census documents and handwritten passports are not valid for registering Afghan students in Iran.
In a statement, the center provided information about the conditions for registering foreign students for the new academic year in the country, stating that only holders of valid identification cards, passports with residence permits, or passports with electronic family visas and residence booklets (ordinary, special, or refugee) can register in schools in Iran.
The announcement further stated that any other documents, including census papers and non-electronic passports, as well as family passports, are not valid for registration.
It is worth mentioning that a family passport is a document typically issued by the Afghan government for families, containing information about several family members, such as parents and children, collectively.
This type of passport, unlike individual passports, covers all family members and is primarily used for registration or immigration purposes.
According to this directive, in addition to children with census documents who have recently been deprived of education in Iranian schools, Afghan children holding family passports will also be excluded from the education system.
This comes at a time when Nader Yar-Ahmadi, the head of the Center for Foreign Nationals and Immigrants Affairs at the Ministry of Interior of the Islamic Republic of Iran, recently announced coordination with the Ministry of Education to create a virtual education platform in Afghanistan for migrant students with census documents who must leave Iran by the end of the current month of Tir.
He stated that in the new academic year, only students with identification and residency documents will be registered in schools in Iran.
