Hi - not sure how helpful this will be considering we are English and entered Syria from Jordan in the summer of 2007. BUT - we had been told by the Syrian Embassy in Cairo, where we passed through on our way to Jordan and then Syria, that we wouldn't be able to get a visa at the border and that we should have applied for one in London. This, as you can imagine, worried us a lot - so much so that when we entered Jordan we drove straight to the Syrian border to ask about getting a visa for Syria, our reasoning being that if they did refuse us we then had 2 weeks to get back to the UK and apply from the Syrian Embassy in London.
We didn't need to worry. They sent a fax off to Damascus, then 20 mins later the answer came back that when we chose to enter Syria, we could have a 15 day transit visa - which isn't any different to a tourist one from what we could work out. 2 weeks later we duly entered Syria and it was all OK. Hope this helps.
Mark
PS - Jordan is easy - they issue visas at the border.
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