It takes about 1-3 working days (Wednesday-Saturday) to issue the number. The authorisation code is valid for just one month and you have to collect your visa within a month. Therefore the best time for visa application is about 50 to 90 days before your arrival.
Price:
Get a 5$ discount and pay 33$ (30$+10% PayPal fee) with Caravanistan booking form. (instead of 38.5$ with operator)
If you need more information about the visa or visa on arrival, see our Iran visa guide
- Citizens of UK, Canada and USA NEED to have a guided itinerary and purchase a tour to enter Iran. If you want to try to get the authorisation without booking a tour by sending request through Caravanistan reply will be no anyway… Please value our time.
- People who say they are traveling by car need to purchase a tour.
- No visa required for citizens of: Turkey, Malaysia, Syria, Georgia, Azerbaijan (15 days), Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador.
- Visa support is not provided for African countries and Pakistan citizens. We apologize for this blatant discrimination by MFA.
We accept PayPal payments:
Please leave a review of our service in the comment form below when you get your authorisation code (we don’t answer questions in the comments). Thank you, we aim to please!
We applied Iran LOI via Caravanistan website and got a reply from Zahra immediately. Zahra was very helpful, gave lots of advice and replied my emails also in evenings! Got our RN in 6 days (including their weekend) and will head now to embassy to collect the visas. We can recommed their service also on other travel bookings in Iran. Thanks Caravanistan for the good work and useful info, what we have used in our travels in different Central Asian countries!!!
I got my LOI in two days, and a few days later got the visa without problems at the Erbil consulate in Northern-Iraq. The service of K2P was smooth and friendly, they helped me when I did mistakes with the application and always replied quickly.
Steven and Saule, you have my deepest admiration for running this website. Really thank you!
It was super easy to book the loi with PTA via caravanistan. It worked like a charm.
People at PTA were very responsive, helpful, very attentionate.
I got the LOI in even less than 10days and got the visa in erzurum turkey in few hours with no problem by showing the LOI.
Just the form to fill on the website is a bit uneasy with a smartphone.. Other than that every thing was great!
Hi Saule this is the 2nd time l have used your service the 1st to get a Uzbekistan LOI which went very smoothly, and now the lran R/N thanks to Zahra at 2 Persia.com he answered all my questions and made sure paperwork was correct, my visa was waiting in Almaty for me. I received my Visa straight away. I can’t recommend Saule at Caravanistan more highly. The you for help, a service you provided make travelling in Central Asia that more easily. Thank David
Hi Saule! Booking Iran LOI was really easy. As I sent the request, they answered to me asking all my details. Then they sent to me the Paypal address for the payment. Once I paid they told me that all was good; two weeks later they sent to me the LOI and I have been able to go to the Embassy in Bishkek and applying for the Visa. One important thing: when I asked for the LOI I was in China, so my Gmail account was not reachable. I explained that to the iranian tourist Agency and we talked on Whatsapp as well, I sent some detail (like my picture) via this app. Really helpful!
Got my Code after just 2 days! I am very satisfied with Key2Persia and recommend their service to everyone travelling to Iran.
Key2Persia are awesome, got the letter after 6 working days. Thanks to caravanistan for getting the discount for us :) I asked a few agents around in Yerevan and none of them are cheaper.
K2P are fine with you using someone else’s paypal if you don’t have one. In the end I created one because all my friends are hobos who barely know Paypal exists. If you dont have a credit card to link and you’re in Georgia and IF you have a nice passport (any EU country, Turkey is ok too, Iran is not but I guess it’s not relevant here) you can get a credit card for 1 lari in 15 minutes from TBC Bank (Majrnashvili office open until 8 pm). If you want to close the account you have to do so while youre still in Georgia. I closed my account 2 days after opening it and they didnt budge :D
Back to the payment, there was an issue with the payment page where my credit card didnt appear. I emailed K2P and 10 minutes later they sent an invoice to my paypal account and the problem was solved. Make sure to compare the change rate of paypal with that of your bank (K2P only accepts USD) because the change of paypal is very shitty.
also k2p replies during the persian weekend and in evenings.
I did the Loi to Iran with Key2Persia. Everything was fast and perfect.
Cheers!
We booked the Iran Invitation Letter via Caravanistan. The agency Key2Persia got in contact with us immediately. After paying the amount we got the RN within the 10 working days as they told us before. Perfect! We can highly recomend this Service!
Very fast and good service. I had my invitation letter before expected and they answered a lot of questions I had very quickly by whatsapp. The night before getting my Visa, they where helping telling me what I had to write in the application. It was late in Iran and it was their weekend but, despite that, they were there helping me. Very happy with their service
I received the LOI within 9 working days (excluding the day I send the request and attached documents). It was properly transferred to the Yerevan embassy as I requested – I went there a couple weeks later to request the visa. The whole process went smoothly and the few contacts I had with the agency were friendly. Very efficient service indeed!
Excellent service. Got the LOI very promptly. Thanks to Caravanistan and Key2Persia. Highly recommend both. Further to that the wealth of information on Caravanistan is exceptional. I will be sure to contribute my own experiences as well.
It worked well for me. I made the payment on the 3. April 2017 and received the LOI/reference code on the 18. of April 2017. Key2Persia was very responsive and helpful regarding other questions I had. Special thanks to Zahra!
Merci!
Thank you Caravanistan for helping me in my Visa process
We used Key2Persia as recommended by Caravanistan for applicating to the Iranian administration. The RN was issued 6 working days after, with no issue. We just got our visa in Erzurum, we are now heading to Iran by Visa. We are French and Italian.
You can follow our adventure on Viajandoynotanto.com & Instagram @Juliandraa. More details on the visas will be published there.