6 month multiple exit/entry visa's - Boring I know!

21POSTS

15 years ago

I know this isn't half as exciting as posts on iPads or curry houses but all the same it is one I need an answer on if possible.

Do I need to get my 10 dinar green triangular stamp put in my passport every time I re enter Libya - some people have said most definitely yes and others don't bother and don't seem to get pulled up on it when they next exit at the airport.

Anybody got an answer on way or the other please?

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gabacho Contributor

190POSTS

15 years ago

Tarkus wrote:
I know this isn't half as exciting as posts on iPads or curry houses but all the same it is one I need an answer on if possible.

Do I need to get my 10 dinar green triangular stamp put in my passport every time I re enter Libya - some people have said most definitely yes and others don't bother and don't seem to get pulled up on it when they next exit at the airport.

Anybody got an answer on way or the other please?

I'm not sure what the official rules are, but my experience is this.

You don't need to get the triangular stamp everytime you re-enter on a 6 month business visa. You only need to get the triangular ink stamps once after your first entry.

Tarkus Member

21POSTS

15 years ago

Yes, I had a closer look: its a reddish postage stamp of what looks like LYD10 over stamped with a green triangle ink stamp and next to it is another green triangular ink stamp with date hand written in. So far I have got one every time I have re entered within 7 days.

So thats it - do I need this every time to get out?

KevShepherd Active member

32POSTS

15 years ago

Hi,
I used to let the Corinthia put one in my passport each time I flew home on Thursday but I stopped since I moved to Palm City and I haven't had a comment the last dozen or so times that I travelled home for the weekend.

the FCO site says this :

Registering with the Libya authorities

All tourists and short stay visitors must register their passports with the police within one week of arrival. This is usually arranged by the company you are visiting or the local travel agency you are travelling with. A fee of LD 10-15 is usually charged for this. Failure to comply with this requirement may lead to you being fined when you come to leave the country.

Foreign Office Advice for Libya

I think that answers the question.

a) You are not on a tourist visa
b) 6 months multiple is hardly short stay.

I asked at palm city if I could get some kind of temporary residence document to show where I'm staying but they assured me there's no need.

Hope this helps - but it is a very grey subject .

Kev.

Tarkus Member

21POSTS

15 years ago

Thanks Kev, I think that about wraps it up - no more stamps for me!

Dren New member

7POSTS

15 years ago

KevShepherd wrote:
Hi,
I used to let the Corinthia put one in my passport each time I flew home on Thursday but I stopped since I moved to Palm City and I haven't had a comment the last dozen or so times that I travelled home for the weekend.

the FCO site says this :
Registering with the Libya authorities

All tourists and short stay visitors must register their passports with the police within one week of arrival. This is usually arranged by the company you are visiting or the local travel agency you are travelling with. A fee of LD 10-15 is usually charged for this. Failure to comply with this requirement may lead to you being fined when you come to leave the country.

Foreign Office Advice for Libya

I think that answers the question.

a) You are not on a tourist visa
b) 6 months multiple is hardly short stay.

I asked at palm city if I could get some kind of temporary residence document to show where I'm staying but they assured me there's no need.

Hope this helps - but it is a very grey subject .

Kev.

Very grey if you ask me. Have a 6 month multiple entry but got pulled last month when leaving. Had to pay a 50LD fine but what really annoyed me was i had to come back out to get a photocopy of passport and got charged 15LD by the guy with the only photocopier in the airport. Photocopier well paid for id say.

LittleSpoon Active member

38POSTS

15 years ago

All I know is that I had to pay a fine when I was late getting my stamp on re-entry on my second return to the country. As far as I am aware you need it every time with a business visa.

My partner, who has a residence visa, only needs to get it stamped on leaving the country, but not on his return.

slackerdad Member

11POSTS

15 years ago

Is there any other visa that is good for a longer time?

haydarbu Member

23POSTS

15 years ago

#10

For the triangle stamp...

1 st time in Tripoli: (They were asking for VISA to Turkish that time and i had mine) : 25 days stay : No triangle : reached the plane

2 nd time in Tripoli: as a tourist (without VISA) : 23 days stay : no triangle : reached the plane

3 rd time in Tripoli: as a tourist (without VISA) : 18 days stay : no triangle : reached the photocopy : 50.50 LYD fine : reached the plane

And the best conversation with the Mudir ever:

"one times free, two times free, please Sir, photocopy and pay..."

So i cant really say that there is a formula or regulation about it. We have paid it and hardly caught the plane on time...

Burak,

ersinturgut Member

12POSTS

15 years ago

#11

If you will stay more than 7 days in Libya, you need that triangle stamp in order not pay fine of 50 Lyd.
I have experienced and learned at last why I paid this fine when leaving.

Rocko Active member

57POSTS

15 years ago

#12

you know i got this thing bugging me that went unanswered from the last visa related posts.. im on a multiple entry business visa and if i leave the country on my 54th day, do i get to reenter and...

A. get another 60 days to stay or
B. my ACCUMULATED days are only 60 days hence only have 6 legal days left in libya or
C. got to leave by the date where my visa expires or
D. take the next flight home instead.

PR guy at the office says I can't go anywhere but back to Malaysia to reenter Libya, which I think is BS and doesnt make sense at all.

Embassy guy says "accumulated days in Libya is 60 days" which i have doubts. He couldn't get through the Libyan Immigration for confirmation.

p/s: I really don't want to spend my Eid holidays here and need time off.

Tarkus Member

21POSTS

15 years ago

#13

You don't say but I'm assuming your visa is a 2 month exit/entry?
Anyway, how it works for me (UK resident) is this.
I have a 6 month visa and I can come and go to various contries during the 6 months. Before the last day of validity I have to get out of Libya and renew my visa for another 6 months for which I have to go to the Libyan embassy in London, i.e. in my country of residence.

I would have thought this was fairly standard no matter where you are from.

Rocko Active member

57POSTS

15 years ago

#14

it is... but Libya is different - e.g to stamp or not to stamp? like why its ok for some ppl and not for others (although on the same conditions). Some get fined some don't. Nothing is set in stone here.

I guess the answer is : I will have to leave before the 60th day and may reenter on the same visa and will be allowed to stay until it expires.

(The dates on my visa totals up to 3 months and on another section says 60 days.. so i guess its a 3 month exit/entry where maximum days of stay per entry is 60 days.)

Just making sure

flipfinger Contributor

115POSTS

15 years ago

#15

K I have a query: if you're here for more than 60 days on a six month multi entry business visa, what's the fine you have to pay, and where do you pay it? Kinda urgent query, gotta fly back to the UK cos my mum has been taken into hospital and i'm worried things are going to go drastically wrong at the airport..

erinman Member

13POSTS

15 years ago

#16

I thought I understood the procedures until I read all this

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Sandman6 ViP

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15 years ago

#17

flipfinger wrote:
K I have a query: if you're here for more than 60 days on a six month multi entry business visa, what's the fine you have to pay, and where do you pay it? Kinda urgent query, gotta fly back to the UK cos my mum has been taken into hospital and i'm worried things are going to go drastically wrong at the airport..

Anything between 10 and 50 per day, depending on how hungry the chimp is