Entry Visa For Fashion Models Lebanon : General Security
Name of the Organization : General Directorate of General Security
Type of Facility : Entry Visa For Fashion Models
Country : Lebanon
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Website : http://www.general-security.gov.lb/
Entry Visa For Fashion Models :
The entry of models for tourism:
The models that have already practiced modeling in Lebanon and are coming back for tourism, need a previous visa of the General Security whatever their nationalities and whatever the period of absence outside Lebanon.
Related : General Security Entry Visa For Touristic Groups Lebanon : www.statusin.org/5748.html
The entry of models for work:
The entry of models to Lebanon is subject to a previous visa of the General Security whatever their nationalities are.
1- The procedure:
The fashion agencies should submit an application for an entry visa of the models before the Department of Arabs and Foreigners – Section of Artists – which launches the procedure of visa issuance.
A- The models shall visit within 48 hours of their entry to Lebanon, the Department of Arabs and Foreigners – Section of Artists – to sign a contract of work, drafted between them and the owner of the agency and to register it. In this contract will be determined the duration of work, its period, dates, and places of exhibition, address of the models residence. Their passport shall be sealed by the necessary visa.
B- The model shall also visit the department before leaving Lebanon to get a leave permit after getting a financial release without withdrawal of her passport, according to the applied rules.
C- During the month of shopping, the festival of summer, the first and the second week, that are exempted from any charges, the model is granted a period to leave without financial release if he/she entered Lebanon to work.
D- The models are exempted from some laboratory tests (HIV – Syphilis – Jaundice) upon their arrival to Lebanon.
E- The maximum work duration for the fashion model in Lebanon is six months in the year, whether they are continuous or intermittent, and she is not allowed to resume work unless she spends a duration outside Lebanon equivalent to the duration of her work in Lebanon, similar to other artists.
F- A fashion model that used to work in Lebanon as an Artist is not allowed to enter Lebanon whatever the duration she spent outside Lebanon after her last departure as an artist.
G- The one who used to work as a fashion model in Lebanon is allowed to enter Lebanon as an artist, and the terms of entrance, residence and work of artists will apply to her.
2- Receiving the Fees:
A- The modeling agencies are exempted from paying the artist fee for the fashion models they bring over to Lebanon in order to present shows for duration of less than one week and twice in the year only.
B- The artist fee is not received for the fashion models who perform modeling shows during the shopping month and the summer festival, in addition to the two weeks mentioned above.
C- The artist fee is collected when the fashion model enters Lebanon in any other additional time other than those mentioned above as well as each time her residence duration exceeds the one week duration or the one month duration of the shopping month and the summer festival.