
Libyan Visa Invitation Letter
Libyan law requires visitors to acquire
a visa invitation letter from an approved Libyan tour operator
or a Libyan travel agent, in order to obtain a Libyan visa.
The normal procedure is to book your
holiday or tour with your chosen Libyan tour operator, in
order for the operator to provide you with the invitation
letter.
Some people think that Libyan tour operators
will not give you a visa or an invitation letter unless
you book a holiday with them just to make money. This is
not true. Libyan law states that only your Libyan-government-approved
tour operator can provide you with a visa, and that once
you are inside the country a representative from that tour
operator must accompany you. This can be confirmed by visiting
the web
site of the Libyan Embassy in London.
For groups of more than four tourists the
law also requires the Tourism Police to accompany you, and
for groups of between ten and twenty, you need two Tourism
Officers to accompany the convoy.
This however does not mean that you must
book a group-holiday or an expensive-tour in order to get
the Libyan visa invitation letter.
You are welcome to visit Libya alone
any time you like, and rest assured that you do not have
to travel as part of a group. The tour operator is only
required to provide you with a guide and a visa, and the
rest is entirely up to you.
You can camp or choose to sleep in a
hotel you like, buy and eat your own food, and drive your own
car, if you have one. There is no restriction of freedom either,
as, once you decide what destinations you would like to visit,
you can go anywhere within those specified destinations.
For instance, if you say you want to visit Leptis Magna,
then once you are in Leptis Magna you can go anywhere you
like at any time and sleep anywhere you like; your guide
will be like a friend whom you can ask for directions and
you do the driving - and who knows, he may become your friend!
This means that what we, at www.temehu.com, mean
by "booking your holiday with us" is basically
choosing us as your visa and guide provider, and that anything
else, like accommodation, food, museum guides, etc., is optional and
has to be decided when requesting our final price.
How can I obtain an invitation letter
from temehu.com?
Send us an email saying you would like
Temehu Tourism Services to be your tour provider, together
with the following details:
- Full Name, Nationality, Date & Place of Birth
- Passport number & Expiry Date
- Profession
The tour operator will then send you the
invitation letter, which you can take to the Libyan embassy
in your country, together with a translated passport, an
application form, 4 photos and fees. Or we can use the invitation
letter to get the visa ready for you at the arrival point:
We can offer Libyan Visa on arrival
The easy way to obtain the Libyan visa:
you do not have to have or see the "visa invitation
letter" at all. All you have to do is send us a
copy of your original and the translated
bio-page of your passport at least one week before
arrival. And that is it. Nothing else is required from you.
We will use the received documents to apply for a "Libyan
Visa Approval",
which we will use to obtain the Libyan Entry Visa for you
on the day of your arrival. Most of our visitors opt for
this option. (To find out more about Libyan visa procedure,
please see our visa page).
Journalists
If you are a journalist (that is your profession is specified
as journalist in your passport), then we are sorry to inform
you that Libyan tour operators are not authorised to provide
entry visas for journalists. Journalists need to contact
the Libyan embassy, in person, in their country of residence
to find out if they could obtain a visa or not.
To enquire about our visa invitation
letter and find out more about our tours, prices and
services, please use our enquiries
form.

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