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Online Sources

• 1878-1960 UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960 at Ancestry - index & images ($)
• 1890-1960 Passenger Lists Leaving UK 1890-1960 at Findmypast - index & images ($)
• 1892-1924 New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924 Search results for Iraq
• 1946-1971 Free Access: Africa, Asia and Europe, Passenger Lists of Displaced Persons, 1946-1971 Ancestry, free. Index and images. Passenger lists of immigrants leaving Germany and other European ports and airports between 1946-1971. The majority of the immigrants listed in this collection are displaced persons - Holocaust survivors, former concentration camp inmates and Nazi forced laborers, as well as refugees from Central and Eastern European countries and some non-European countries.
• United States Immigration Online Genealogy Records

British Overseas Subjects

• UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects, 1628-1969, index ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms, Iraq , index & images ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages, Iraq , index & images ($)
• British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials at Findmypast - index & images ($)

Finding the Town of Origin in Iraq

If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in Iraq, see Iraq Finding Town of Origin for additional research strategies.

Iraq Emigration and Immigration

"Emigration" means moving out of a country. "Immigration" means moving into a country.
Emigration and immigration sources list the names of people leaving (emigrating) or arriving (immigrating) in the country. These sources may be passenger lists, permissions to emigrate, or records of passports issued. The information in these records may include the emigrants’ names, ages, occupations, destinations, and places of origin or birthplaces. Sometimes they also show family groups.

Immigration to Iraq

To escape the civil war, over 160,000 Syrian refugees of varying ethnicities have fled to Iraq since 2012.

Emigration From Iraq

• Refugees from Iraq have increased in number since the US-led invasion into Iraq in March 2003.
• As of November 4, 2006, the UNHCR estimated that 1.8 million Iraqis had been displaced to neighboring countries, with nearly 100,000 Iraqis fleeing to Syria and Jordan each month.
• There are over 200,000 Iraqi refugees said to reside in Egypt and 100,000 more in the Persian Gulf states (Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
• The main destinations for Iraqi immigration in the 2000s (decade) are the UK, Sweden, Germany, Canada, Australia and South America (i.e. Brazil).
• However, there is a large Iraqi community in the United States and some of the community in the US arrived as early as the 1900s-10s.
• In 2007, the UN said that about 40% of Iraq's middle class was believed to have fled and that most had fled systematic persecution and had no desire to return.
• More than half of Iraqi Christians had fled the country since the 2003 US-led invasion.
• Subsequently, the diaspora seemed to be returning, as security improved; the Iraqi government claimed that 46,000 refugees returned to their homes in October 2007 alone.

Records of Iraqi Emigrants in Their Destination Nations

One option is to look for records about the ancestor in the country of destination, the country they immigrated into. See links to Wiki articles about immigration records for major destination countries below. Additional Wiki articles for other destinations can be found at Category:Emigration and Immigration Records.

United States Emigration and Immigration Canada Emigration and Immigration Syria Emigration and Immigration Jordan Emigration and Immigration Egypt Emigration and Immigration England Emigration and Immigration Sweden Emigration and Immigration Germany Emigration and Immigration

Australia Emigration and Immigration Brazil Emigration and Immigration Bahrain Emigration and Immigration Kuwait Emigration and Immigration Oman Emigration and Immigration Qatar Emigration and Immigration Saudi Arabia Emigration and Immigration United Arab Emirates Emigration and Immigration

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