1. The first step is to issue a legal document in which the person who invites
makes commitment to afford all the expenses (trip and stay) of the invited
(older than 18 years).
This legal document must be signed and stamped by a Public Notary or a
registered Lawyer in accordance with the Qatari Laws and then legalized, in
first place, by the Registration, Notary and Legal Affairs Department of the
Qatari Ministry of Justice, and finally by the Qatari Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. The following information must appear in the document produced:
1. Details of the person who invites:
a) Full name
b) Passport number
c) Qatari ID Number
d) Place and Date of Birth
e) Full Home Address and Phone Number
f) Occupation and Company name
g) Marital Status
h) Sponsor’s Name (in case of Foreign Citizen)
2. Details of the person invited:
a) Full name (2 Surnames included)
b) ID Number. (Cuban Identity Document)
c) Place and Date of Birth
d) Occupation and Company Name
e) Full Home address and Phone Number
f) Parent’s names
g) Marital Status
3. Type of relationship (husband, wife, uncle, nephew, friends, etc…)
4. And the commitment of the person who invites to guarantee all the expenses
related to the trip as for lodging, maintenance, health insurance, etc., in
order to take economical and legal responsibility for the Invited Person, so
that the Invited person is not left unaided during their visit, and the
commitment that the expenses of their return trip to Cuba are guaranteed by the
Invitee.
5. Signature of the invitee agreeing with the information provided.
To obtain a draft to elaborate a Legal Document attested by the Qatari Laws for
INVITATION LETTER, please
click here
Then with the aforementioned legal document, it will be issued an Invitation
Letter that can be certified at our Consular Office at a cost of $164.00 USD
(595.00 QAR). It will be sent to
CONSULTORIA JURÍDICA INTERNACIONAL, Cuban Institution that will contact the
invited person to continue the process of invitation.
Only the people with a direct relationship of consanguinity with the Invitee
(Son, Parents, Grandparents or Grandchildren…) can obtain an Invitation Letter
directly in our offices.
To obtain the Application Form for Invitation Letter provided by the Consular
Office in English, please
click here.
A Passport Photocopy of the person who invites must be provided as well.
1. CUSTOMS DUTIES AND TAXES.
If you are
visiting Cuba as tourist you will enjoy the benefits established in the
Convention on Customs Facilities for Tourism. You will have the right to enter
items for your personal use carried in your check-baggage or in your
hand-baggage, that there is no reason to consider that these rights are being
used in excesive quantities and they will be reexported when leaving the
country.
To this
effect, personal items are in addition to clothings and other articles that can
reasonably be considered of personal use by the tourist, taking into account the
circumstances of the trip, and other items according to the type of tourism,
such as:
Photo and
video cameras, camping tent, fishing gear, bicycle, sports equipments, laptop
computer, equipments for recording and reproducing sounds.
If you are
only carrying your personal items and cash not exceeding $5000.00 USD or its
equivalent in other currencies, YOU DO NOT NEED TO FILL OUT THE CUSTOMS
DECLARATION.
Any
given passenger can carry with him to Cuba:
Exempt
from the payment of Import Duty
His
personal items, considering those articles a passenger may need for personal use
during the trip
medicines, prosthesis and wheel seat for the use of ill and disable people
Books
and articles for teaching purposes
In
addition, a passenger can import articles for non-commercial purposes up to a
limit in value of $1000 pesos, of which the first $50 pesos are exempt from the
payment of import duty, and for the rest (from 51 to 1000) pesos must pay the
import duty applying the following Ad-valorem Progressive Fee.
|
Value in Cuban National Currency |
Progressive Duty Fee |
|
Customs Duty to be collected |
|
From |
To |
Accumulated |
|
|
From $00.00 a $50.99 |
Exempt |
|
|
From $51.00 a $250.99 |
100% |
|
|
From $251.00 a $500.99 |
150% |
|
|
From $501.00 a $1,000.00 |
200% |
|
$2.00 |
to |
$1,000.00 |
$1,575.00 |
|
|
Total of customs duty to be collected in case of importing the
maximum authorized value |
$1,575.00 |
The
$50.00 pesos exempt from the payment of import duty are included in the first
line.
2. PROHIBITIONS AND SPECIAL IMPORT REQUIREMENTS.
A.- PROHIBITIONS:
When arriving
and when leaving the country the passenger cannot carry with him:
-Drugs,
narcotics and psicothropic substances or hallucinogen, except those of medical
use accompanied by the corresponding physician prescription.
-Explosives
-Fire arms
and ammunitions, unless when submitting the expressed authorization from the
appropriate institution
-Blood
products
-Obscene or
pornographic literature, articles and objects, or those publications considered
a threat to the general interests of the nation.
-Endangered
species registered in the Convention on International Trade of Endangered
Species of Wild Fauna and Flora in case of not submitting the permit issued by
the appropriate authority (CITES permission)
Import Prohibitions (Entry):
The
following electronic equipments:
Freezers
having a capacity exceeding 7 feet; air conditioners; cookers and electric
ranges, including electrical resistance; ovens and microwaves; showers; fryers;
water heater; irons not having a consumption exceeding 290 watts/hour with spray
or 703 watts/hour with spray and steam; bread toasters.
B.- GOODS SUBJECT TO SPECIAL IMPORT REQUIREMENTS.
On
Import (Entry) – Articles and Products subject to Requirements:
Licence
or Previous Permits from the Ministry of Informatics and Communications:
wireless fax
equipments; telephone boards; data-net devices; wireless telephones except those
operating in 40 – 49 MHz, 2,4 GHz and 5 GHz bands; radio transmitters; radio
transceptors, including walkie-talkie; professional radio receiver; land earth
stations and satellite communications terminals, including parabolic antennas
and satellital phones
Previous
Permit from the Hidrographical and Geodesical National Office:
Global
Positioning System (GPS), of any type.
Subject to
Inspection and Authorization from the Veterinarian and Phitosanitarian
Authorities:
Alive
animals, plants and its parts, and products of animal and vegetable origin
whether processed or not.
On
Export (Exit):
A
passenger cannot carry with him:
-More than
three units of the same medicine of national production, except those destined
to continued treatment, according to its length of time and accompanied by the
Certificate of the Health Center, and in the case of non permanent residents in
Cuba of the corresponding Official Invoice.
-National
heritage works or with museum value; books, brochures and publications in series
dated more than 50 years ago, as well as Editorial “R” books if they do not have
the Export Certificate from the Cultural Works Registry.
-Cuban
Handmade Cigars in an amount exceeding 50 units not having the Official Invoice
from the stored where they were purchased.
-Lobster
(frozen tales in its shell) not having Invoice which accredits its licit
purchase in the authorized stores.
-Cash in an
amount exceeding $5000.00 USD or its equivalent in other currencies that have
not been declared when entering the country or not having the corresponding
authorization of the Bank.
-More than
$100.00 Cuban National Currency (CUP) or more than $200.00 Cuban Convertible
Pesos (CUC).
-Manuscript
books; incunabula (books dated between 1440 and 1500); books, brochures and
foreign publications in series printed from XVI to XVIII centuries (1501 -1800);
books, brochures and publications in series published in Cuba in the XVIII
century; books, brochures that have the seal of libraries part of the national
system of public libraries or other informational systems, as well as Cuban
organization and institutions; ARE NOT EXPORTABLE.
-Pieces and
collections with numismatic value not submitting the Authorization of the
Numismatic Museum or the Central Bank of Cuba.
If you
acquire fresh paintings and sculptures in the points where they are sold, make
sure that they have the Seal which authorizes their Export or request the
corresponding Permit indispensable requirement to take them out of the country.
3.- SPECIAL REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE IMPORT OF
GOODS OF NATION HERITAGE, OBJECTS CONTAINING PRECIOUS METALS AND SOTONES, AND
FOREING CURRENCY.
When
passengers temporarily import articles and/or objects which excced US $5000.00
in value, they must complete a "Declaration of Value" at the time of importation
and file it with the Customs authorities. The document certified by Customs must
be presented to the Customs at the time of departure as proof the importation of
the items.
Passengers
intending to leave Cuba with cash in excess of US $5000.00 or similar amount in
any currency must declare it at the time of entry to Cuba, the total amount in
their possession. Goods not declared, or falsely declared, and those in excess
of the authorized value may be seized or forfeited.
For more detailed information,
visit the web site of Cuban Customs:
http://www.aduana.co.cu/
