If permission is required, what permission is it, where/how is it obtained, and what core onward-travel evidence is required?
General Security lists a transit visa and requires a visa or residence permit when the country from which the applicant comes is not the applicant’s country of origin. Its general visa process includes General Security regional departments and Lebanese missions abroad. The fee page lists LBP 2,000,000 for a transit or residence visa with one or two entries. The official source does not identify onward-ticket or onward-destination admissibility evidence.
See recorded sources
Limits of the record- Exact onward-travel evidence and applicability to airside transit require competent authority/carrier confirmation.
- 37- Transit
37- Transit
-A visa or a residency permit if the country where he comes from is not his country of origin
38- work visa
- 11- The general directorate
11- The general directorate of general security (previous authorization): the request is made at the regional departments by the interested party (Lebanese citizen, Palestinian refugee, the owner of a temporary visa, a permanent, a diplomatic, or a particular visa, as well as a residency permit of first or second class).
A decision taken by the general director.
A decision taken by the director of the following department: the bureau of naturalization, passports, and foreigners.
12- Visas delivered by departments or border posts -
13- Lebanese missions abroad can grant visas with the authorization of the general security, and under the responsibility of the mission’s director.
- The Transit or Residence
The Transit or Residence Visa
(One or Double entries)
2.000.000 LBP
Work or Entry visa
- 43- The requested documents
43- The requested documents have to be in Arabic, French or English. 44- The visas mentioned in 32 / 33 / 34 / 35 / 36 / 37 / 38 / 39 / 39 bis / are not renewable. They can’t be changed into a work visa without an official decision taken by the general director.
