Following the July 4 announcement that they had started to implement a federal governing system, Kurdish groups in Northern Iraq have begun stamping "Kurdistan" into passports of people passing to Turkey's Habur border crossing from Northern Iraq's Halil Ibrahim border crossing.

The Iraqi Kurdistan Democratic Party  (IKDP) peshmergas are reportedly uses stamps which announce in English and in Arabic "Republic of Iraq/Iraqi Kurdistan Region Ibrahim Halil Border Crossing" in the passports of people returning to Turkey from Iraq. Truck drivers who frequent the path between the two countries reportedly fear that the "Kurdistan" stamp in their passports will cause problems with authorities from neighboring countries who may not recognize the Northern Iraqi government.