Shafaq News /The acting Iraqi embassy in Amman Tahsin Alwan said to  "Shafaq  News", "approximately 200 thousand of Iraqi refugees are now living in Jordan, mostly concentrated in Amman."Alwan said that "a lot of Iraqis in Jordan are suffering difficult living conditions waiting to be resettled in other countries.""most Iraqis in Jordan do not have residence and their remaining in Jordan depends on a document granted by the United Nations refugee agency to prove they're on the list of refugees to prevent the Jordanian authorities from returning them forcibly to their country." Alwan added .

Alwan said that "most Iraqis in Jordan can not work because they have no residence documents  so some of them depend on aid and some other do free hard works and do not need residence document to secure the requirements of living."

Alwan and that "the Iraqi embassy in Jordan, provides very fast services to all Iraqis and their doors are always open to receive requests and complaints, if any."

UNHCR has recommended the need to accept the settlement of 48 000 Iraqi refugees in 2010 in the host countries.

Most of the applications of the Iraqi refugees come from Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Turkey, where most Iraqi refugees living abroad and their number is about 1.8 million refugees.