🇾🇪Singapore entry information for travel documents issued by Yemen
A travel document issued by Yemen needs a Singapore visa before departure, and ICA’s Yemen page lists no exempt passport type. This guide sets out what ICA asks for: a signed Form 14A, a recent photo, the data page, a letter of introduction on Form V39A and English translations of Arabic records. It also explains how to check your document with ICA. It is an information page and does not offer an application service.
What this page is
A plain account of ICA’s published rules for Yemen; no application is taken here.
ICA’s timing
Three working days after the submission day, by ICA’s own guide; some files take longer.
Letter of introduction
Form V39A is on Yemen’s list, from a qualifying local contact or, failing that, your Embassy.
Your document first
Unsure how ICA will view your passport? ICA invites enquiries with a copy of the data page and cover.
Yemen is on ICA’s list of places whose travel documents require a Singapore entry visa. The test ICA applies is the country that issued the document you will travel on. A passport issued by Yemen therefore needs an approved visa before you board, whether you are visiting relatives, seeing the city or attending a meeting.
Nationality, birthplace and residence do not change that test on their own. Someone born in Aden who now travels on another country’s passport is assessed under that country’s rules. A Yemeni citizen living in Riyadh or Kuala Lumpur who still travels on a Yemeni passport is assessed under the Yemen rules, whatever residence permit they hold.
ICA’s Yemen page names no exempt category. Diplomatic, official and service passports are not mentioned, so a holder of one of those documents should not assume an exemption and should ask ICA before travelling.
Some travellers also wonder how ICA will view a particular passport, for example one issued in unusual circumstances or by an office they are unsure about. ICA’s public Yemen page does not address this. Its general visa page invites travellers to contact ICA through its enquiry form, attaching a copy of the biodata page and the front cover, for assistance and verification. That is the reliable way to settle a document question; this guide does not attempt to answer it.
This page summarises ICA’s published requirements. It does not take applications or payments, and it cannot influence a decision. Visas and admission are decided by the Singapore authorities alone.
Form 14A, the photograph, the data-page copy and Form V39A, item by item.
When an English translation is needed and which translators ICA accepts.
The e-Service and Singapore Overseas Mission routes that ICA describes.
Airside connections, stopovers, the SG Arrival Card and the Visit Pass.
Begin with the parts that rely on someone else: the Form V39A signature and any official translations. Everything else can be prepared around them.
These examples apply ICA’s Yemen guidance to everyday circumstances. They explain the published rules and say nothing about how a particular application will be decided.
An ordinary Yemeni passport requires a visa, and all of the requirements below apply.
A Gulf residence permit is proof of where you live, not a travel document. It does not replace or alter the visa requirement for your Yemeni passport, though it may affect which Singapore mission is convenient.
The same applies to a student pass: your passport’s issuing country, not your place of study, decides which ICA page you follow.
ICA’s general visa page says a refugee travel document needs a visa and is subject to assessment of recognition. Ask ICA about your specific document before planning the trip.
ICA’s Yemen page lists no exemption, so confirm the position with ICA.
For business negotiations or discussions, Form V39A has to be signed by someone acting for the Singapore-registered entity you are dealing with.
These suggestions are for convenience only. ICA does not require them, and they have no effect on its decision.
ICA’s listed documents and its translation rule come first, followed by documents ICA may ask for in a particular case.
ICA requirement
Your visa application is assessed on the information you declare in Form 14A, and ICA can call for the signed form, so complete every question before signing.
Copy your name exactly as the passport prints it in Latin letters. Arabic names can be romanised in many ways, and the passport version is the one that counts.
ICA requirement
One recent colour photo of passport size, no older than three months, that follows ICA’s photo guidelines.
ICA requirement
A clear photocopy of the page with your photo and personal particulars, from a passport with at least six months of validity left on your date of entry into Singapore.
ICA requirement
ICA’s Yemen page lists a completed Form V39A, which may be issued by a local contact in Singapore. ICA’s conditions for that contact: Singapore citizenship or permanent residence, a minimum age of 21, and a Singpass account. Where the trip is a business visit, the letter has to come from someone acting for the Singapore-registered business entity.
Where no local contact can provide the letter, ICA states that an LOI issued by your Embassy can also be accepted, whether the visit is social or for business.
ICA requirement for non-English records
Yemeni civil records, employment letters and bank statements are often in Arabic. For each record not in English, ICA wants three things together: the original, an official English translation, and a copy it can keep.
A Yemen-issued record can be translated by the Embassy of Yemen or by a notary public in Yemen or Singapore. A translation you commission privately also qualifies once that embassy attests it or such a notary notarises it. No private translation company carries ICA’s endorsement.
Case by case · ICA may request
ICA may ask for additional documents in an individual case and warns that insufficient documentation may lead to an application not being accepted. Anything extra in Arabic follows the same translation rule.
Practical point · not an ICA rule
ICA’s Yemen list does not itself mention hotel bookings or tickets. Having confirmed plans that match the dates in Form 14A makes it easier to respond if ICA asks for more.
Our general requirements page shows an example passport scan and a photograph that meets the usual standard.
General requirements pageICA may request further documents in any application. A complete file supports the assessment but does not decide it.
ICA describes two routes. Inside Singapore, a strategic partner or a local contact can submit the application through ICA’s e-Service. Outside Singapore, you can apply at the nearest Singapore Overseas Mission or through a visa agent it has authorised, following that mission’s own procedure. ICA does not accept visa applications at the immigration counters. A sensible order of work:
Step 1
Confirm that Yemen issued it and that six months will remain after your arrival date. If you are unsure how ICA will view it, use ICA’s enquiry form first.
Step 2
Ask a local contact who meets ICA’s conditions, or approach your Embassy if no one can sign.
Step 3
Only documents not in English, and only through a source ICA accepts.
Step 4
Use the passport’s Latin spelling and dates throughout.
Step 5
Choose between ICA’s e-Service, which a strategic partner or Singapore contact operates for you, and a Singapore Overseas Mission or its authorised agent.
Step 6
An approval is issued as an e-Visa. ICA says the local contact, strategic partner or authorised agent who filed the application prints it from the e-Service.
ICA advises applying within the 30 days before you arrive. Keep a duplicate of every document you send.
Two of the points below are ICA rules: six months of passport validity and a photo no older than three months. The others are practical checks.
ICA requirement
Count six months forward from the day you expect to land in Singapore. The expiry date printed in the passport must fall after that.
Copy the whole data page, including the photograph and both machine-readable lines, without shadows or cropping.
If you have renewed your passport, the new number must appear on Form 14A, on Form V39A and in any bookings. An old number on one document can make the file inconsistent.
ICA requirement
ICA asks for a recent colour photo in passport size, taken in the last three months, and its guidelines rule out any alteration or enhancement. Points to check:
Several separate things are easily confused when travelling through or to Singapore. Each card below covers one of them, as ICA describes it.
In ICA’s definition, a transit traveller is someone heading to another country via Singapore without clearing arrival immigration, and ICA imposes no specific requirements on them. Ask the airline whether your connection keeps you in the transit area.
Yemen is not named in any category of ICA’s Visa-Free Transit Facility. If your itinerary requires you to pass immigration, for example to collect bags or check in again with another airline, the visa requirement ordinarily applies.
ICA describes the visa as pre-entry permission to travel to Singapore and seek entry. It is not an immigration pass, it does not guarantee entry, and the checkpoint officers make the admission decision.
Required of travellers who clear immigration, and filed in the three days leading up to arrival, the arrival day included. Submission is free, the card is not a visa, and passengers who stay in the transit area are exempt.
The period you may stay is set by the electronic Visit Pass issued on arrival and sent by email, not by how long the e-Visa is valid. Staying longer requires a separate extension application to ICA.
ICA handles each family member as a separate applicant, so a family trip involves one complete set of documents per person.
ICA requires every traveller, whatever their age, to hold an individually issued travel document of their own, and it does not accept collective travel documents.
Each parent and each child needs their own application and their own letter of introduction details.
If you include an Arabic birth or marriage certificate to show a relationship, it needs an accepted English translation, with the original and a copy.
Family members may carry different romanised spellings of a shared name. Each person’s documents should follow their own passport.
These points help keep a file accurate. ICA considers each application on its own merits; nothing here predicts an outcome.
“Abdulrahman”, “Abdul Rahman” and “Abd al-Rahman” may all be correct romanisations, but only the passport spelling should appear on forms and bookings.
A Gulf residence card or student pass shows where you live. It is not a passport and does not change which visa rules apply.
Yemen is outside ICA’s Visa-Free Transit Facility, so a connection that involves clearing immigration is ordinarily subject to the visa requirement.
Each non-English record needs an official English translation from an accepted source.
For business negotiations or discussions, the signatory must be acting for the Singapore-registered business, not as a private individual.
The six months are counted from your date of entry into Singapore.
If you are unsure how ICA will treat your passport or travel document, ask ICA through its enquiry form rather than assuming.
Answers based on ICA’s published guidance. This page is provided for information only.
Yes. ICA’s Yemen page requires a visa for any travel document issued by Yemen and lists no exempt passport category.
ICA’s Yemen page does not say so; it mentions no exemption for any passport type. Confirm with ICA before travelling without a visa.
ICA’s general visa page invites travellers to use its enquiry form, attaching a copy of the travel document’s biodata page and front cover, for assistance and verification. This guide cannot answer recognition questions.
Yes, if you travel on a Yemeni passport. The residence permit shows where you live; the visa rule follows the country that issued your passport.
ICA requires a Singapore citizen or permanent resident aged 21 or older who uses Singpass. If you are travelling for business talks, the signatory must represent the Singapore-registered business.
Your Embassy. ICA’s Yemen page allows an Embassy-issued LOI for social or business trips if a local contact’s letter cannot be secured.
Three kinds: one made by the Embassy of Yemen, one made by a notary public in Yemen or Singapore, and a private translation later attested by that embassy or notarised by such a notary.
Yemen is not covered by ICA’s Visa-Free Transit Facility, so the visa requirement ordinarily applies if you pass immigration. Staying airside without clearing immigration is a different situation; ask your airline whether your connection allows it.
No. It is a free arrival declaration submitted within three days before arrival, including the arrival day. You need an approved visa as well.
No. The permitted stay appears on the electronic Visit Pass ICA issues when you arrive and emails to you, so give a working email address in your SG Arrival Card.
Three working days, with the day of submission excluded; ICA adds that some cases need more time and that each is considered on its own merits.
Yes. ICA requires every traveller, regardless of age, to hold an individually issued travel document and does not accept collective documents.
No. This page provides information about ICA’s published requirements only. Applications go through the ICA routes described above.
Confirm that Yemen issued your passport and that six months will remain on arrival, ask ICA about any document question, arrange Form V39A and translations of Arabic records, and use one of the ICA routes described above.