Airport Transit Schengen Visa

Overview

The Transit Schengen Permit is a document that has been recognized by the Schengen Zone Fellow Nations with the only determination of easing travelling for non-EU/EEA citizens who have to land at an airport situated in the Schengen Zone, in demand to take a flight to their non-Schengen destination nation. The document allows its owner to transit via a Schengen country to their non-Schengen destination state, without exiting the transit zone of the airport. But, tourists that require to land in further than one airport of the Schengen area must apply for a regular Schengen permit, as a substitute of a Transit Schengen permit. If the tourist is going to a Schengen member nation, i.e. in Finland, and has to transit via another Schengen country, i.e. Germany, then there is no requirement to get a Transit Visa, as the Schengen visa already authorizes the tourist to arrive any Schengen nation.

Who Requires to Apply for a Schengen Transit Visa

Nations whose citizens are essential to be in ownership of an airport transit permit when transitory through the global transit zone of airports located on the region of every Schengen Fellow Nation are the resulting:

• Afghanistan
• Bangladesh
• The Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Iran
• Iraq
• Nigeria
• Pakistan
• Somalia
• Sri Lanka

Nation Precise List of Nationals Who Need a Transit Visa

On the other side, the Schengen Region fellow nations have the right to make the gaining of a Transit Schengen Visa a necessity, for citizens of specific countries. Nations as the Czech Republic, France, and Spain have an extended list of nations the residents of which should get this sort of visa in demand to be able to transit via their airports. While, there are also 14 additional nations of the Schengen Region, which even the countries recorded above, do not need a transit visa from any other country.

Austria

• Syria

Belgium

• Dominican Republic
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Nepal
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Syria

Switzerland

• Syria
• Turkey

Czech Republic

• Chad
• Egypt
• India
• Kyrgyzstan
• Lebanon
• Libya
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Niger
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Syria
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Yemen
• Palestinians

Germany

• India
• Jordan
• Lebanon
• Mali
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Syria
• Turkey

Denmark

• Syria

Greece

• Sudan
• Syria

Spain

• Cameroon
• Côte D'Ivoire
• Cuba
• Djibouti
• Gambia
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Jordan
• Liberia
• Mali
• Sierra Leone
• Syria
• Togo

France

• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Congo
• Côte D'Ivoire
• Dominican Republic
• Guinea
• Haiti
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Philippines
• Russia
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Syria
• Palestinians

Italy

• Senegal
• Syria

Luxembourg

• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Nepal
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Syria
• Togo

Netherlands

• Cuba
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Nepal
• Sierra Leone
• South Sudan
• Sudan
• Syria

Portugal

• Guinea,
• Senegal

But, the below registered Schengen Zone fellow countries do not need an airport transit permit from any other nation, aside from the shared list of third nations:

• Estonia
• Finland
• Hungary
• Iceland
• Liechtenstein
• Lithuania
• Latvia
• Malta
• Norway
• Poland
• Sweden
• Slovenia
• Slovakia
• Liechtenstein

Schengen Airport Transit Visa Exclusions

The Schengen Region member nations have settled on shared exclusions for Airport Transit Visa for individuals that fit one of the below-listed groups:

• Owners of ambassadorial passports
• Owners of a legal uniform visa, state long-stay visa or residence permit delivered by a Member nation
• Tourists who are third-country citizens and who own a legal residence authorization allotted by San Marino, Andorra, Canada, Japan, or the United States of America which assurances the owner's unconditional readmission.
• Tourists who are third-country residents and own a legal visa or residence authorization for a nation in the Schengen Zone, the EU or the EEA.
• Tourists who are third-country citizens and who own a lawful visa for Japan, Canada, or USA, or when they return from those nations after having used the visa
• Household members of residents of the Union as mentioned in Article 1(2)(a) of the Visa Code
• Flight crew associates on duty who are citizens of a Contracting Association to the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation (ICAO)

Where to Apply for a Schengen Transit Visa

You must apply at the consulate or the embassy of the nation in which your transit airport is situated.

Documents Essential to Submit to Obtain the Transit Permit

When applying for any additional visa, there are a few Schengen essential documents that one has to submit in demand for his or her appeal to be considered. Here are the vital documents to apply for an Airport Transit Schengen visa in adding to the average mandatory documents for any Schengen visa:

• Your legal passport
• Schengen A-Visa appeal form
• Two matching photographs that come across Schengen rules
• Evidence of compensated Schengen visa charges. The Schengen Transit visa application charges 80 Euro
• Biometric Information. Children, disabled individuals and government bureaucrats are excused from this obligation
• Copies of prior visas if appropriate
• A personal cover letter is addressing to the embassy. It would help if you clarified the facts of your travel plan as to when you plan to visit the nation, where you will stay and what you will do
• Booking of the inbound and outbound flight
• Visa for the last destination (if a visa is needed)