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.

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 .

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