West Bank Visit Permit

A. Foreigners who are citizens of countries signed to a visa exemption agreement with Israel who arrive in the Judea and Samaria area for the purpose of visiting only, and who request a permit under this part of the procedure, shall not, as a rule, be required to submit an application in advance; they will be allowed to submit the application upon arriving at the Allenby Bridge Crossing, except in cases where this procedure explicitly provides otherwise. B. Foreigners from countries that are signed to a visa exemption agreement with Israel, but who in the past have been refused entry into the Area or into Israel; foreigners with criminal episodes or security episodes in their past; foreigners who in the past have resided illegally in Israel or in the Area; and foreigners who in the past five years have had their entry into the Area or into Israel conditioned on a financial bond shall all be required to coordinate their arrival in advance through the COGAT center for inquiries from foreigners.

C. Foreigners who are citizens of countries that maintain diplomatic relations with Israel, but that are not signed to a visa exemption agreement with 3 Israel, and who wish to enter the Judea and Samaria by means of an Israeli permit, regardless of purpose, are entitled to apply to the Israeli representative office in their own country in order to apply for a permit as detailed in this procedure. The application will be passed to the authorized office for evaluation.

F. Foreigners who are citizens of nations that do not maintain diplomatic relations with Israel, or citizens of the nations listed in appendix E, and people born in any of those countries or holding documents from any of those countries, must receive a visit permit from the Palestinian Authority, and they will not be allowed to submit requests or receive permits under this procedure.

D. A visit permit under this part of the procedure shall be granted only to foreigners requesting to enter the Area for a visit, or for another purpose defined in this procedure, that requires a short stay in the Area, other than for purposes of paid or unpaid work. Eligible visitors may include — 1) **Spouses and first-degree relatives of Judea and Samaria residents** – For the purpose of a visit to a Judea and Samaria area resident whose center of living is in the Area at the time of the application's submission, or who is inside the Area at the time of the visit; or for submission of an application for formalizing status under Part 4 of this procedure. 2) **Children, up to 16 years of age, of Palestinians registered as** **residents of the Judea and Samaria area** – for the purpose of visiting or of arranging to be registered with the Palestinian Authority as residents of the Area.

3) Businesspeople and investors 4) **A journalist or other media employee serving a news agency or** **media organ**, carrying appropriate documentation from the Government Press Office (GPO) or – having proven, to the satisfaction of the authorized office, that he/she is employed by an international media organ – for the purposes of his/her assigned work at the news agency or media organ.

E. The authorized COGAT official is entitled to approve a permit under this part of the procedure for foreigners who do not belong to the categories mentioned above, in exceptional circumstances and for special humanitarian reasons that are to be specified.

A. All permits issued under this part of the procedure are B/2 (tourist) permits intended for <u>visits</u> in the Area, and **their term shall be limited to a** **maximum of three months**.

Visit permits issued under **Part 2** of this procedure may be extended, for exceptional reasons, for a maximum of 3 more months. A permit extension for more than 180 days requires approval from the authorized COGAT official on the grounds of special considerations, which must be documented, and in any case a permit under this procedure shall not be extended to a period exceeding 27 months.

A. As a rule, a permit for entering the Area expires upon the foreigner's departure from the Area through the international border crossings. Accordingly, if a foreigner departs from the Area through those crossings but wishes to re-enter the Area, the foreigner must request and receive a new permit.

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A. When an entry permit has been requested for a foreigner arriving at the Judea and Samaria area, the authorized COGAT official, as detailed below, is entitled to require a bank guaranty or a guaranty in cash in order to ensure the departure of the foreigner from the Judea and Samaria area upon the permit's termination and to ensure compliance with the permit's conditions.

K. Along with the option of setting conditions in the matter of depositing a guaranty, the authorized official is also entitled to set conditions of other kinds, such as requiring the presentation of a return flight ticket, the signing of a declaration testifying to awareness of the permit's conditions, the promise to be present only in certain places, and so on.

D. An application for entry into the Area on behalf of a foreigner who is so required under subclauses B and C above must be submitted at least 45 days in advance of the date of entry, except that in exceptional and humanitarian cases the application may be submitted on shorter notice, although never less than 48 hours before the time of entry, depending on the circumstances of the case.

E. The application must be prepared as per the form that appears in Appendix A of this procedure.

B. An application to extend a permit must be submitted, through a representative of the Palestinian Population Registry in Ramallah, to the Head of Civil Administration's Population Registry Unit. The application must be submitted, at least two weeks before the permit's expiration, on the form that appears in Appendix B to this procedure, and it must be accompanied by the applicant's passport.

A. In cases when a foreigner holds a permit but wishes to convert it to a permit for a different purpose, the foreigner may remain in the Area until the decision regarding the application, but only until the expiry date of the permit that the foreigner currently holds.