World Cup 2026 visa chaos: from referee Omar Artan to Iranian officials – who is affected? (opens in new tab)

Fifa has found its tournament squarely caught up in the second Trump administration’s aggressive border restrictionsFor successive men’s World Cup tournaments Fifa has managed to bulldoze its way through costly immigration and entry requirements. In 2014, Brazil passed a law granting free temporary visas to ticket holders, and for Russia and Qatar, the respective autocracies bypassed traditional border friction using Fan IDs and Hayya cards as makeshift visa entry documents that also provided...