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Visa for a Libyan Citizen Holding a Foreign Passport

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Explore the five recorded questions, answers and sources for this pathway.

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What exactly is the official special programme/status and why does it exist?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm what the special programme or status is.

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Limits of the record
  • The embassy page only gives the visa title (used by protected R2) and its requirements; it does not explain what the programme is or why it exists.

What circumstance, event, relationship, nomination, invitation or status activates access?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the event, relationship, nomination or status that activates access.

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Limits of the record
  • Not established: the correction failed a second independent check (CAIXA_ERRADA: Corrected 'and' list is now faithful, but copies of Libyan passport, US ID and Libyan birth certificate are evidence that must be supplied (R4), not the triggering circumstance (R3).)

What sponsor, authority, nomination, certification, evidence or other step must occur before the status can be obtained?

Applicants send a passport valid for at least six months with at least two clear visa pages, a completed visa application, two recent passport-size (2x2 inch) colour photographs with a white background, and a prepaid tracked return envelope (FedEx, UPS or USPS). Final approval must come from the authorities in Libya.

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Limits of the record
  • Procedure as published by the Embassy of Libya in Washington, D.C.; other Libyan missions were not checked.

What immigration status and rights result, how long do they last, can family be included, and what happens if the special qualifying circumstance ends?

The result is a visa of 90 days (single entry, $25) or 365 days (multiple entries, $160), with fees paid by money order to the Embassy of Libya.

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Limits of the record
  • Whether family members can be included, the rights attached and what happens if the qualifying circumstance ends are not stated.
  • Procedure as published by the Embassy of Libya in Washington, D.C.; other Libyan missions were not checked.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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