Libya 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 Libya visa. The normal procedure is to book your holiday or tour with your chosen Libyan tour operator in
order for them to provide you with the invitation letter required for the Libya visa. Of course, you can always obtain visas on arrival without recourse to the letter. The invitation letter is only needed if you want to obtain the Libya visa directly from the Libyan embassy in the country of your residence.
Some people think that Libyan tour operators
will not give you a visa or an invitation letter unless
you book an expensive holiday with them just to make more
money. This is not true. Libyan law states that only your
Libyan-government-approved tour operator can provide you
with a Libya visa, and that once you are inside the country
a representative from that tour operator must accompany
you during your tour.
For groups of more than four tourists the
law also requires the Tourism Police to accompany you.
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. 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 Libya 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 and Nationality.
- 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 Libya visa ready for you at the arrival
point.
Important Update:
After the recent changes in visa law we no longer supply these letters nor deal with Libyan embassies. The preffered and usual method is visa on arrival, without the need to contact the embassy.
We can offer Libya 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 ten days 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 Libya 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 secure enquiries form.
Passport Arabic translation page
Libyan Visa Page
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