| Visitors traveling internationally may often need a
Transit or Airport Transit visa if your flight has a
stopover/change of flight at any intermediate airport/country.
Transit visa can be seen as a temporary short period
visa. This may allow you to go out of airport or remain
at airport.
In general a transit visa is required even if a traveler
remains on the same aircraft in the same airport. Duration
of validity may vary depends on the country's regulations
generally it is valid for few hours to few days e.g.
Singapore, it's even available for your 4 hrs of halt
time. They also have airport transport available free
of charge for passengers tour.
Travelers visiting USA may need transit visa in some
specific cases depend on what route or country their
flight has stop over. Transit visa requirements vary
depends on the citizenship and other diplomatic relationship
a country has with visitor's home country.
Indian Citizens , holding a valid Indian passport
and a valid US visa , traveling to USA via UK, Germany,
Holland, Italy , Paris, Switzerland, Tokyo, Hong Kong
do not need transit visa IF they are not going out of
airport.
( You may need a transit visa IF you need to change
airport or to go out of airport)
Here are some useful links to Transit visa information
for various countries:
How to get a transit visa ?
While few countries/airports facilitates transit visa
at the airport itself ; others may need in advance issued
from the travelers home country by the applicable consulate
of that country.
Since these rules and regulations are subject to change
from time to time, the best course of action is to always
check with the airlines you will be traveling, about
transit visa requirements
AirPort Transit Visa required at Germany ?
Dated : Feb 28 2005. Lately there are different stories and confusion around the Transit Visa at Germany.
visitors traveling Visa Germany may need to have a airport transit visa. Following URL list the countries who need to have airport transit visa.
http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/info/consular_services/visa/countrylist.html 1. If you are Indian citizen and USA Green Card holder you don't need this airport transit visa.
2. If you hold any US non-immigrant visa , you would need a airport transit visa. You can also contact nearest German consulate to get answer if you have any question in this regard.
Here is the URL listing German consulate/embassies in USA http://www.germany-info.org/relaunch/info/missions/consulates.html URL for German consulate India:
http://www.germanembassy-india.org/en/willkommen/visa/transit.html
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