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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Lebanon Requiring Visas For Syrian Refugees [Watch (HLS stream): Lebanon Requiring Visas For Syrian Refugees](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/WCQxdtLD.m3u8) (2:05)  _Published 2015-01-05. 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Syrians must now have a visa to enter Lebanon. That's a tall order for many who have left everything behind to escape the brutal violence. The Wall Street Journal reports a tourist visa requires proof of a hotel reservation, ID, and $ 1, 000. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee. Refugees lists Lebanon and Turkey with virtually the same number of refugees from Syria, each with more than 1. 1 million people documented. But some estimate another half million undocumented refugees may be in Lebanon. In Turkey and other host countries, those refugees have camps, camps often lacking a full stock of supplies for such an overwhelming. Need granted, but camps nonetheless. Not so in Lebanon. The country has host communities, where refugees mostly live in squalor. Lebanon's crowded population already consisted of 4. 5 million people, so add 1. 5 million desperate refugees, and the situation is understandably tense. Politically, economically, and among the various religious sects. Lebanon's former head of the Syria crisis response told the Wall Street Journal about the competition for jobs, it is a race to the bottom, between the poorest Syrians and the poorest Lebanese. While Lebanon has at times closed it's border with Syria, or limited the number of. People coming into the country, this is perhaps its most significant escalation to quell the number of people entering the country. Two weeks ago, Lebanon Social Affairs Minister announced the Syrian crisis has cost the country $ 20 billion since 2011. Only a fraction of which has been supported by international aid. Perhaps more concerning for the Lebanese, the BBC's Paul Wood, who's based in Beirut, said resentment of the refugees is growing. 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