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China → Yemen: Short-stay tourist

What you need before you submit, checked against official requirements, not guesswork.

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Required documents

9 items

Identity

Financial

Purpose of travel

  • A visa is required: no nationality is visa-exempt

    Required

    Yemen's Immigration, Passports and Nationality Authority (IPNA) publishes no visa-free or visa-on-arrival route for tourism, and its e-Visa portal offers the same visa types to every nationality. Tourists use one of three channels: an individually sponsored Visit Visa; a Tourist Group visa for organized groups of 10 or more travelling with a Yemeni tourism agency accredited by the General Authority for Tourism; or that same group visa issued urgently at the border. Pick whichever matches your trip, the documents below apply to all three.

    Source: Immigration, Passports and Nationality Authority / Ministry of Interior, Republic of Yemen

  • Signed pledge to leave on time

    Required

    A signed pledge that you won't take up any activity beyond your visit's purpose and that you'll leave Yemen once your authorised period ends.

    Source: Immigration, Passports and Nationality Authority / Ministry of Interior, Republic of Yemen

  • Sponsor's request or accredited tourism agency letter

    Required

    An individual Visit Visa needs a Yemeni national or a foreign resident in Yemen to formally request your visit, confirm they can support you, and pledge you'll leave once your visit ends. A Tourist Group visa instead needs a letter from a Yemeni tourism agency accredited by the General Authority for Tourism, submitted with the group's travel program.

    Source: Immigration, Passports and Nationality Authority / Ministry of Interior, Republic of Yemen

Travel

Other

Why applications on this route get refused

  • No sponsor in Yemen or accredited tourism agency

    Both the Visit Visa and the Tourist Group visa depend on someone else vouching for you, a resident sponsor or a General Authority for Tourism-accredited agency. IPNA doesn't grant either visa type without that request submitted first.

    How to avoid it: Arrange your sponsor, or book through an accredited Yemeni tourism agency, before you apply, and make sure their letter is attached to your application.

  • Passport valid for less than 6 months

    Every visa type on the e-Visa portal requires a passport valid for at least six months from your date of travel.

    How to avoid it: Renew your passport before you apply if it has less than 6 months of validity left.

  • Tourist group of fewer than 10 people

    The Tourist Group visa, and its faster border-issued 'Urgent tourist visa' variant, specifically requires a group of at least ten people travelling together through an accredited agency.

    How to avoid it: If you aren't travelling with a group of 10 or more, apply for an individual Visit Visa with a sponsor in Yemen instead.

Sources

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