Currently only citizens of the 16 West African nations with a valid ECOWAS passport can enter Liberia without a visa. All other nations national require a visa.

Currently there’s two category of visas issue by the Government of Liberia through the Liberia Immigration Service (LIS). Category-1 is 90-days single entry visa; Category-2 is 180-days multiple entry visa

Regardless of age, everyone entering Liberia outside ECOWAS nations require a visa to enter Liberia at all times

Currently, Liberia do not offer visa on-arrival for any country national

Never over stayed a visa in Liberia or any nation; the consequences range from ridiculous finds, jail time, deportation etc.

Colored scanned copy of applicant current passport valid at least 6 months from arrival date and a passport size photo with white back ground

Visa fee vary depending on the visa type and status of the applicant. As of date a 90-day single entry is 50.00USD and a 180-day multiple entries is 150.00USD for non-gratis (diplomatic, bilateral related applicants) applicants. On the average it takes 2-10 working days to process a visa. FYI, this processing time depends on fast or early submission of all require documents and based on applicant eligibility

Officially, there’s no known procedure. However, all visas applicants TLC facilitate gets copy of Government Issue receipt for their visa fee and gets real-time updates all through the process from TLC staff assigned to the applicant case

Regular process takes 2-10 working days while Express process takes 24 working hours

All visas fee pay to the Government of Liberia account is non refundable

Yes, diplomatic and bilateral related traveler’s government or agency must submit a formal letter to the LIS boss stating the purpose of travel, pay the designated gratis visa fee. TLC will provide consultancy guiding such applicant through the process as well

Yes, visa applicants can always reapply for entry visa once they meet visa requirements

According to the Aliens and Nationality Law of the Republic of Liberia, section 5.1. Grounds for exclusion. Aliens or foreign nationals shall be ineligible to receive visas to enter Liberia if the below conditions applied to Aliens or foreign nationals as follows:

(a) Aliens who are feeble-minded;
(b) Aliens who are insane;
(c) Aliens who have had one or more attacks of insanity;
(d) Aliens afflicted with psychopathic personality, epilepsy or mental defect;
(e) Aliens who are narcotic drug addicts or chronic alcoholics;
(f) Aliens who are afflicted with tuberculosis in any form, or with leprosy, or any dangerous contagious disease;
(g) Aliens not comprehended within any of the foregoing classes who are certified by the examining surgeon as having a physical defect, disease, or
disability, when determined by the consular or immigration officer to be of such a nature that it may affect the ability of the alien to earn a living, unless the alien affirmatively establishes that he will not have to earn a living;
(h) Aliens who are paupers, professional beggars, or vagrants;
(i) Aliens who have been convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude (other than purely political offense), or aliens who admit having committed such a crime, or aliens who admit committing acts which constitute the essential elements of such a crime;
(j) Aliens who are prostitutes or who have been engaged in prostitution, or aliens coming to Liberia solely, principally, or incidentally to engage in prostitution; aliens who directly or indirectly procure or attempt to procure, or who have procured or attempted to procure or to import, prostitutes or persons for the purpose of prostitution or for any other immoral purpose; and aliens who are or have been supported by or received or have received, in whole or in part, the proceeds of prostitution, or aliens coming to Liberia to engage in any other unlawful commercialized vice, whether or not related to prostitution;
(k) Aliens seeking to enter Liberia for the purpose of performing professional skilled, semi-skilled, or unskilled labor who have not secured employment permits from the Director General of the National Labour Affairs Agency if such permits are required by the Labor Law;
(L) Aliens who, in the opinion of the consular officer at the time of for a visa or in the opinion of the Attorney General at the time of application for admission, are likely at any, time to become public charges;
(m) Aliens who have been excluded from admission and deported and who again seek admission within one year from the date of such deportation, unless prior to their embarka-tion at a place outside Liberia or their attempt to be admitted from foreign contiguous territory, the Attorney General has consented to their reapplying for admission;
(n) Aliens who have been arrested and deported, or who have been removed as alien enemies or who have been removed at Government expense in lieu of
deportation, unless prior to their embarkation at a place outside Liberia or their attempt to be admitted from foreign contiguous territory, the Attorney General has consented to their applying or reapplying for admission;
(o) Aliens who are stowaways;
(p) Aliens who seek to procure, or have sought to procure or have procured a visa or other documentation or seek to enter Liberia by fraud, or by willfully misrepresenting a material fact;
(q) Immigrants who are ineligible to citizenship;
(r) Any alien who has been convicted of a violation of any law relating to the illicit traffic in narcotic drugs, or who has been convicted of a violation of any law governing or controlling the taxing, manufacturing, production, com-pounding transportation, sale, exchange, dispensing, giving away, importation, exportation, or the possession for the purpose of the manufacture, giving away, importation or exportation of opium, coca leaves, heroin, marihuana, or any salt derivatives or preparation of opium or coca leaves, or isonipecaine or any addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining opiate, or other drug within the application of the Narcotic Drug Control Act; or any alien who the consular or immigration officer knows or
has reason to believe is or has been an illicit trafficker in any of the aforementioned drugs;
(s) Any nonimmigrant who is not in possession of a passport valid for a minimum period of six months from the date of his admission or expiration of the
contemplated initial period of stay, authorizing him to return to the country from which he came or to proceed to and enter some other country during such period;
(t) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this title, any immigrant who at the time of application for admission is not in possession of a valid unexpired immigrant visa or reentry permit, and a valid unexpired passport or other suitable travel document;
(u) Aliens who the consular officer or the Attorney General knows or has reason to believe seek to enter Liberia solely, principally, or incidentally to engage in activities which would prejudice and be prejudicial to the public interest, or endanger the welfare, safety, or security of Liberia;
(v) Aliens who are, or at any time have been, members of any of the following classes:
(i) Aliens who are anarchists;
(ii) Aliens who advocate or teach, or who are members of or affiliated with any organization that advocates or teaches, opposition to all organized government;
(iii) Aliens who are members of or affiliated with the Communist Party or any other totalitarian party; any section, subsidiary, branch, affiliate, or other subdivision of any association or party; or the direct predecessors or successors of any such group or organization;
(iv) Aliens not within any of the other provisions of this section who advocate the economic, international, and governmental doctrines of world communism or the establishment in Liberia or elsewhere of a totalitarian dictatorship, or who are members of or affiliated with any organization that advocates the economic, international, and governmental doctrines of world communism or the establishment in Liberia or elsewhere of a totalitarian dictatorship, whether through its own utterances or through any written or printed publications issued or published by or with permission or consent of or under the authority of such organization or paid for by funds of or funds furnished by such organization;
(v) Aliens who advocate or teach or who are members of or affiliated with any organization that advocates or teaches the overthrow by force, violence, or other unconstitutional means of the government or of all forms of law; or the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer (either of specific individuals or of officers generally) of the Government of Liberia or of any other organized government because of his official character; or the unlawful damage, injury, or destruction of property; or sabotage;
(vi) Aliens who write or publish, or cause to be written or published, or who knowingly circulates distribute, print, or display, or knowingly cause to be circulated, distribu-ted, printed, published or displayed, or who knowingly have in their possession for the purpose of circulation, publication, distribution, or display, any written or printed matter, advocating or teaching opposition to all organized government, or advocating or teaching the overthrow by force, violence or other unconstitutional means of the Government of Liberia or of all forms of law; or the duty, necessity or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers (either of specific individuals or of officers generally) of the Government of Liberia or of any other organized government because of his or their official character; or the unlawful damage, injury, or destruction of property, or sabotage; or the economic, international, and governmental doctrine of world communism or the establishment in Liberia of a totalitarian dictatorship;
(vii) Aliens who are members of or affiliated with any organization that writes, circulates, distributes, prints, publishes, or displays, or causes to be written, circulated, distributed, printed, published, or displayed, or that has in its possession for the purpose of circulation, distribu-tion, publication, issue or display any written or printed matter of the character described in paragraph (vi);
(viii) Aliens with respect to whom the consular officer or the Attorney General knows or has reasonable ground to believe probably would, after entry, engage in activities which would be prohibited by the laws of Liberia relating to espionage, sabotage, public disorder, or engage in other activity subversive to the national security, or engage in any activity a purpose of which is the opposition to or the overthrow of the government by force, violence, or other unconstitutional means;
(w) Any alien who at any time shall have knowingly and for gain encouraged, induced, or assisted, abetted, or aided any other alien to enter or attempt to enter Liberia in violation of law.

Once the visa is approve and issue, the hard copy must be pickup from the LIS. TLC will pick up the hard copy issued visa from the LIS and email a scan copy to visa applicant for all TLC clients. For those TLC clients with airport pick up arrangement, your hard copy visa will also be deliver to you as you are pick up from airport.

Yes, everyone with a valid entry visa for Liberia is allow to enter Liberia.

TLC clients on regular visa facilitation processing plan must alert us within 24hours of submission and payment for a full refund. TLC clients on express visa facilitation plan must alert us within an hour for full refund. Once a visa application is submitted to the Liberian immigration Service for processing we can’t refund as your visa fee are remitted into the government of Liberia account for visa processing within 3 to 30 hours as of applicant visa application submission