Reforming the rules of the Iraqi residency law and its impact on expatriate workers

Abstract

Abstract: The phenomenon of foreign expatriate Labor has become one of the phenomena that many Arab countries resort to today, especially Iraq in the last two decades after its openness to the world and an attempt to upgrade economic activity by using such labor, but this may be reflected negatively on the practical reality because the legal regulation was not sufficient to absorb such labor and the legal consequences which handled the work of The foreign worker in Iraq, which is contained in the Iraqi labor law in force, in order to find a precise legal regulation regulating the entry of an expatriate foreign worker, and how to enter the territory of the Republic of Iraq with a special work attribute granted to him in the light of an employment contract and the necessary leave and license resulting from it, in light of the competence and technical experience enjoyed by that worker in some cases, as well as the issuance of special instructions to apply the provisions of the aliens law.