Visa Rules

All passports has to be valid for more than 6 months from the arrival date, the Israeli border police have the right to deny entry for any client who has less than six months validity passport even if he has got the visa, please make sure that all passports are valid for more than six months.

Rules to submit Israeli collective visa for restricted nationalities

Who needs visa to Israel

Please double click on the link below to check if you require a visa to enter Israel.
http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ConsularServices/Documents/VisaRequirements-Tourists.pdf

Christian Clients

Visa for Christians, needs to be submitted 10 working days prior to arrival date, excluding Fridays, Saturdays and Jewish holidays that shouldn`t be counted

Visa for Christians Malaysian and Indonesian Nationality, needs to be submitted 30 working days prior to arrival date, excluding Fridays, Saturdays and Jewish holidays that shouldn`t be counted.

As per the Israeli Ministry of Interior, starting from 10/12/2017, submitting visas for less than 10 pax will not be allowed, the minimum is 10 pax. Regarding Malaysian, Indonesian and Chinese nationality only its allowed to submit for minimum 5 pax on the new system

"The Ministry of Interior will not allow any amendment in the visa after being issued. For special cases only, the Ministry can amend visas if less than 10% of the visa is not correct, means that for a group of 10 pax, only 1 pax details can be amended. In case the visa has more than 10% mistakes, the visa has to be submitted again (if time permits) and to be paid for the second time"
You are kindly requested to check the visa and all the details before sending the manifest to avoid any problem with the Ministry of Interior. And to make sure that all the clients will be approved.

For any application that has time frame of less than 10 working days, it will not be accepted by the ministry of interior and the application online will not allow the access to submit the visa.

Christians usually require a moderate security check by the Israeli intelligence and the Ministry of Interior before issuing the visa.

All the data submitted in the manifest has to be reviewed and corrected before submitting the application, any wrong information could result in the rejection of the visa partially or totally.

All the requested data columns have to be filled as per the application online.

In order to cross to Israel the client must use the passport that he/she submitted to the Ministry of Interior and not any other passport.

Collecting the visa from the ministry of interior totally depends on the ministry of interior personnel and their working schedule. We have no control on when visas can be collected, it could be one day before client`s arrival or sometimes on the same day of arrival.

There are two kinds of visa rejection, the rejection because of national security and with this kind of rejection we can`t submit an appeal to reconsider the rejection, the other kind is because of missing or wrong data. We don`t guarantee that the appeal will be answered positively, the technical appeal will cost $35 per person prepaid.

The answer by the Ministry of Interior for the appeal (rejection due to missing or wrong data) might take up to ten days.

During high season, issuing the visa may take longer time than usual, that`s why it is always recommended to submit ahead of time.

The ministry of interior has the right to deny visa to any client in the manifest or reject all the manifest without giving any justification.

The Israeli border police & /or the Israeli Intelligence has the right to deny entry to any client / Group from entering Israel even if they have visas issued from Israeli ministry of interior. O.S Tours bare no responsibility and can`t be held responsible by any means includes compensation or for any cancelation fees resulted if such cases took place.

For any further information, please contact our O.S consultant.

Muslim Clients

Visa for Muslims needs to be submitted 30 days before arrival.

Muslims always need intensive security check by the Israeli intelligence and the ministry of interior before issuing the visa, that`s why it`s recommended to give all the correct and updated data of the clients to avoid any delay or rejection.

As per the Israeli Ministry of Interior, starting from 10/12/2017, submitting visas for less than 10 pax will not be allowed, the minimum is 10 pax. Regarding Malaysian, Indonesian and Chinese nationality only its allowed to submit for minimum 5 pax on the new system

"The Ministry of Interior will not allow any amendment in the visa after being issued. For special cases only, the Ministry can amend visas if less than 10% of the visa is not correct, means that for a group of 10 pax, only 1 pax details can be amended. In case the visa has more than 10% mistakes, the visa has to be submitted again (if time permits) and to be paid for the second time"

You are kindly requested to check the visa and all the details before sending the manifest to avoid any problem with the Ministry of Interior. And to make sure that all the clients will be approved.

For any application that has time frame of less than 30 days, the ministry of interior will not accept as the application will not be filled online.

All the data submitted in the manifest has to be reviewed and corrected before submitting the application, any wrong information could result in the rejection of the visa partially or totally.

All the requested data columns have to be filled as per the application online.

In order to cross to Israel the client must use the passport that he/she submitted to the ministry of interior and not any other passport.

Collecting the visa from the ministry of interior totally depends on the ministry of interior personnel and their working schedule. We have no control on when visas can be collected, it could be one day before client`s arrival or sometimes on the same day of arrival.

There are two kinds of visa rejection, the rejection because of national security and with this kind of rejection, we can`t submit an appeal to reconsider the rejection, the other kind is because of missing or wrong data. We don`t guarantee that the appeal will be answered positively, the technical appeal will cost $35 per person prepaid.

The answer by the ministry of interior for the appeal (rejection due to missing or wrong data) might take up to three weeks.

During high season, issuing the visa may take longer time than usual that`s why it is always recommended to submit ahead of time.

The ministry of interior has the right to deny visa to any client in the manifest or reject all the manifest without giving any justification.

The Israeli border police & /or the Israeli Intelligence has the right to deny entry to any client / Group from entering Israel even if they have visas issued from Israeli ministry of interior. O.S Tours bare no responsibility and can`t be held responsible by any means includes compensation or for any cancelation fees resulted if such cases took place.

For any further information, please contact our O.S consultant.

Responsibilities - Violations & Penalties

As per the Israeli Ministry of Interior new regulation, the group shouldn`t have cancelation of more than 20%. And in case more than %20 of the group members canceled their visit so the Airport Authority has the right to deny the entry for the whole group.

As per the visa regulation of the Israeli Ministry of Interior, all the group members must arrive and depart on the specified dates mentioned on the visa (unless otherwise approved by the Israeli Ministry of Interior in special cases) and any violation to this or delay in departure to all & or part of the group members will result in a payable penalty of $15,000 per group, and will result in black listing the agency abroad.

Agents that want to issue a collective visa through the Israeli Ministry of Interior will by default accept to be fully responsible to the clients they issue the visa for. And accept to pay the $15000.- penalty should any of their clients stayed back illegally in Israel.

Agents who want to use a collective visa through the Israeli Ministry of Interior should do their own check and take all guarantees from their clients to make sure that the latter are genuine clients and are not seeking to miss-use the visa granted to them by staying illegally in Israel and / or violating the rules of the country.

How to apply visa online

As per the Israeli Ministry of Interior, submitting visas will be via new application, it`s better than the previous one because of below

It works not only with Internet Explorer, but also Chrome and Frefox

In some countries the old application needs authorization and can`t work with computers that has security server, this one works without problems.

Tourist group`s visa application: https://forms.gov.il/globaldata/getsequence/getsequence.aspx?formtype=ash5_hasava@moin.gov.il

The link will ask you for two requests only

Request 1: agent details (name, address …etc

Request 2: client`s details (you can fill till 59 clients in one application)

Then you can send it to our email (rami@os-tours.com ) and it`s highly recommended to save your application in order to have a copy or to amend later in case it`s not submitted

After submitting the visa it won`t be allowed to add or amend any details to the manifest

Please note that no visa will be accepted for arrival less than 30 days as this application is online

The system will not accept any passports validity less than 6 months from date of arrival to Israel.

Please note that we can`t mix between two nationalities in this system, and for any we shall apply individually

We can apply individual visa for less than 10 pax only for Indonesian, Malaysian and Chinese nationalities, they request minimum 5 pax

Who need intelligence check and who don`t?

It`s important to know that there are nationalities that need intelligence check and nationalities don`t as below

Nationalities who needs Intelligence check, ( visa should be submitted 35 days before group arrival ) - like Malaysians, Indonesians and Egyptians, …etc

Nationalities who don`t need Intelligence check: ( visa should be submitted 15 days before group arrival ) – like Turkish , Indians, Brunei, Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, …etc

Regarding Chinese nationality: (visa should be submitted 8 working days before group`s arrival.

For any further information or clarification, please feel free to contact Us at:

Tel: +972 2 6289260 / 6273687
Fax: +972 2 6264979
os@os-tours.com
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