{"id":108,"date":"2021-08-17T09:36:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T09:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2025-07-04T12:12:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:12:57","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>For the attention of all refugees and forcibly displaced people<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fdf799\">UNHCR highly recommends that you keep the original copy of your current document (<em>Amayesh\/Hoviat <\/em>card, Passport, Headcount\/Recount papers, etc.)&nbsp;with you all the time, and make a copy, scan, or take a photo of your current document of all your family members before approaching for issuance of your new documents to ensure identifying your case \ufb01les in databases when you approach organizations for counseling or any other support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fdf799\"><strong>All UNHCR services are free of charge. Beware of fraudsters providing fake identity cards or any other o\ufb03cial documents in exchange for money. Such documents are illegal. Do not pay them! Please regularly check the <a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/\">UNHCR Help website<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/how-to-report-fraud-and\/\">UNHCR Help Fraud page<\/a> and our Latest <a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/news\/\">News webpage<\/a> for up-to-date and reliable information and announcements, availability and access to services and more! Do not hesitate to reach out to us through our <a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/contact\/\">UNHCR<\/a> Iran contact form or through our <a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/contact\/\">UNHCR Iran Protection Helplines<\/a> for more information.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to the Iran \u2018HELP\u2019 website page of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, created to provide useful information on key topics for refugees and forcibly displaced people in need of international protection who are residing in the Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are seeking information from UNHCR in countries outside Iran, you can \ufb01nd this on the <a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/\">\u201cHELP\u201d pages<\/a> of those countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u27a1  <a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Latest News<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u27a1 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contact&nbsp;UNHCR Iran<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u27a1 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/how-can-i-seek-asylum-in-iran\/are-you-a-person-that-unhcr-iran-can-support\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/how-can-i-seek-asylum-in-iran\/are-you-a-person-that-unhcr-iran-can-support\/\">Are you a person that UNHCR can support?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u27a1 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/young-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Information for young people under 18<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This page will be continually updated\u00a0as more information becomes available. You can also find the latest news on UNHCR Iran\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/ir\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a> or follow UNHCR Iran on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/unhcriran\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inst<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/unhcriran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/unhcriran\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/\">Select another country on our Help page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the attention of all refugees and forcibly displaced people UNHCR highly recommends that you keep the original copy of your current document (Amayesh\/Hoviat card, Passport, Headcount\/Recount papers, etc.)&nbsp;with you all the time, and make a copy, scan, or take a photo of your current document of all your family members before approaching for issuance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-108","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3479,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108\/revisions\/3479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/iran\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}