My friend is an Indian citizen and will be travelling to London for a business trip. The visa is valid till the date of his return flight. His return flight has a stop over in Paris for more than 12 hours. His flight from London stops at ORY (Orly) and leaves to India from CDG (Charles de Gaulle).  Does my friend need a visa for France?
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Do I need visa for Paris, if my connecting flight stops at Paris for 24hrs and I want to visit Paris during that 24hrs? I have US B1 visa. I'll be travelling from San Francisco to Bangalore (India) via Paris. I hold Indian passport. If yes, what is the procedure for that visa?
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I'm planning to travel to France a few times in the next few months (tourist). Since I need a Schengen visa, I just don't know how to fill out the forms (which only have questions about travel dates of ONE single trip).  How do I report that I am traveling a few times, because if I don't they might only give me a single entry visa (or a visa not valid long enough for my next trips). I can only see that I'm requesting a multiple entry visa, nothing else about how long I need it to be valid.  Do I need to provide proof of hotel/flight reservations and travel insurance for all the trips or would the first one suffice?  How do I approach this issue so that I get a Schengen visa for at least 4.5 months? I am applying in the UK at their London application centre.
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I am Haitian, and traveling with a Haitian passport. I have to go to London with a work permit (tier 2 visa) on the 29th of July but I have 2 hour transit in Dublin.  Do I need a transit visa? Can I get it at the airport?  I also have a valid US visa.
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I have a multiple entry Schengen business visa issued by Switzerland which will expire in July. Can I travel to Switzerland next week for work and then travel again to France for work at the beginning of July for a week? Or do I have to apply for another visa at the French Consulate?
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I'm an Indian passport holder traveling from US to India with transit stops in Heathrow and Frankfurt (my flight is ORD–LHR–FRA–BLR). I have a valid US H1 visa, and my transits in both London and Frankfurt are less than 3 hours in duration.  Based on the above description, do you know if I would need a transit visa in either London or Frankfurt?
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I am travelling to Budapest and therefore have a Schengen Visa. I hold an Indian passport and a valid US visa. I'm travelling from Chicago-Heathrow-Budapest and returning by Budapest-Dublin-Chicago.  Would I need a transit visa for UK/Ireland?  UPDATE  Hoping this will help someone someday.   I was not allowed to board my return flight (BUD-DUB-ORD) because I do not hold an overnight Irish Transit Visa. They said I could have transited happily if the connecting flight was in the same day, but because I would have to originally land at 10 PM and catch the connecting flight next morning at 10 AM, I needed a transit visa. Well, I thought it was BS, but couldn't help comply with the rules. I booked another last minute ticket and flew via Warsaw via LOT.
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I will be travelling from IAD (Washington DC) to VIE (Vienna) on two separate tickets, first one being on Virgin Atlantic (redeeming miles from IAD to LHR) and second one being on British Airways from LHR to VIE. I am planning to have a layover of about 5 hrs 20 min between both the flights (both arriving and departing from terminal 3 at LHR)  I have an Indian passport with a valid US visa. I have following questions:   Is there even a slight chance that my luggage will be checked through? Does anyone have any experience here? This will help me avoid the UK border and immigration check. I checked with Virgin Atlantic and they said baggage cannot be tagged through to VIE since I have separate tickets. Still I was hoping that things may change at the gate while boarding at IAD. On checking  I see that I will not need a visa for passing UK Border and Immigration. However, the results on this website say "You might be eligible for ‘transit without visa’" if you are arriving from USA and have an onward flight leaving on same or next day. The words 'might be eligible' concern me. Again anyone with experience here? There's an earlier BA flight available (leaving me with a layover of 2 hours between arriving and departing flights from the same terminal 3). Will this be sufficient? Or should I stick to the later flight giving me 5 hrs and 20 min in transit?   Many thanks for your replies.
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Similar to  regarding transit on a DUB-ORD-PDX route, can I make duty-free purchases (e.g. alcohol) in Lima, and return with it to London via Paris (LIM-CDG-LHR), and bring the liquids with me?  I also note that  is similar, though less specific about the intermediate airport.  I don't know whether that would make a difference (i.e. whether individual airports have different mechanisms which might specifically allow or preclude such a thing).   is vague on the subject, while  says that it simply can't be done without the liquids being confiscated.   The value of the drink is unlikely to be sufficient to make it worth buying a suitcase at CDG and checking that in, though a collapsible holdall might be one solution, if that's a possibility.  I just find it frustrating that something which should be easy is made so difficult.  [Edit] The return flights (AF483 and AF1080) both use terminal 2E at CDG, which (according the the easycdg site in DCTLib's answer) means I'll definitely be going through a security check.
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I am traveling from the US to India via London Heathrow on November 6. I will be at LHR on 7th at 6:20 am and departing at 9:25 pm. I'm an Indian national and have a valid US visa.  Do I need a transit visa to stay airside?  I have been scared that British Airways have stopped a few people from boarding flights (no details just rumors).  Do I need a transit visa to stay landside? I want to do some sightseeing. What are the chances of getting past officials using transit without visa concession?  Real stories will help a lot to calm the butterflies in my stomach.
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We are Indian passport holders, with valid visas for Canada. Plan is to take the EgyptAir flight Mumbai to Toronto, via Cairo. Problem is Egypt embassy website says we don't need Transit Visa if transit is up to 12 hours but here transit is 14 hours.    Has anyone with a Indian passport traveled this route? What was your experience at Cairo? Did you need a transit visa?
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From 8th June there's been a  period for people entering the UK. From 10th July, travellers from  via a travel-corridor. If more countries are added to the list of exemptions then the date for each country will be later than the 10th July. If a traveller entered the UK from a country that is not on the exempt list and that country is added to the exempt list prior to the end of the 14 day self-isolation period does the self-isolation period end early? For example, if an individual entered the UK from France on the 5th July, should they remain in isolation for 14 days or does the isolation end on the 10th when France is added to the list of exempt countries?
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What's the quickest Schengen consulate to issue a Visa in London? Basically I want to travel as fast as possible to France, and since any Schengen visa will work, I want to go to the consulate with the shortest processing time.
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I'm an Egyptian girl from Cairo. I'm planning a six-month trip to India in December for training purposes, but getting a six-month visa is so hard from my country.  If I can only get 3 months instead of 6 months, is it possible to extend the business visa in India?
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I am a Pakistani national and need to transit through Dubai International Airport (DXB).  I am not planning to leave the airport and both of my flights (arrival and departure) are from Terminal 3.  I am pretty sure that I do not need transit visa at the DXB, however it is no where mentioned on any of their official website.   Can anyone please provide me such a link stating that transiting without leaving the airport does not require visa at DXB, as I need to use this link as a proof for a visa application?  Thanks
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I am a UK citizen and a friend of mine plans to visit me in the UK during the summer. He is planning to stay one month. He is a recent graduate and his parent are rewarding him with a holiday to London. The friend would be staying with me during his trip.   To support his visa application, would there be any documents I would need to provide? Would I need to be earning a certain amount of money?   Since his parents are paying for the trip, their bank statement instead of his would be fine right? And how much would they need in their bank account?
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Few days back I did a Europe tour from India. As stated by many (I haven't confirmed official documents), I can apply for a visa from the country which is either my first port of entry in this case Paris or the longest stay which in this case was Italy.  Now following is what happened with me.   My flight was New Delhi to Paris via Istanbul with Turkish Airlines I Traveled from New Delhi to Istanbul (no problem here). When I was boarding to flight Istanbul to Paris, zhe airlines officials (the ones who checks the boarding pass before boarding the flight) told me that I could not board the flight because my visa was issued by Italy and I need to go to Italy First. They were denying the longest stay option of the visa. Moreover NONE of the staff of Istanbul airport were able to understand English so I had to go to a lot of problems before I managed to get tickets to Venice. I somehow managed to fly to Venice from Istanbul after almost 24 hours of struggle at Istanbul airport (without food and water).   So, my question is do the airlines staff have a right to deny flight boarding in this case?
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My daughter who is just under 18 has a child accompanied visa to the UK. I am traveling with her to the UK for a few days. We return from UK on the same day except that she returns to India and I am heading to San Francisco an hour later on the same day.   Is that okay or will we have an issue at immigration into the United Kingdom?