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.