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Schengen Airport Transit Visa (type A)

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Explore the five recorded questions, answers and sources for this pathway.

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Which travellers require a transit visa/permission and which officially documented exemptions are important?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm which travellers need transit permission and the main exemptions.

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Limits of the record
  • Not established: the correction failed a second independent check (GENERICA: Value still only defines the visa's purpose (changing means of transport); it does not say which travellers require it or any exemption — the previous GENERICA defect persists; residual admits the nationality list was not captured.)

Can the traveller remain airside, and under what circumstances must immigration control be crossed?

The type A airport transit visa permits transit through the airport’s international transit area without entering the national territory. The airport transit visa does not allow leaving the international transit area, even for an overnight wait.

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What officially documented baggage collection, terminal, separate-ticket or self-transfer situations affect the immigration requirement?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the baggage, terminal-change and self-transfer rules.

What maximum transit period, overnight, airport-change or multiple-stop rules matter?

The airport transit visa does not allow leaving the international transit area, even for an overnight wait. For a single airport transit the competent state is the one where the transit airport is; for double or multiple airport transit it is the state of the first transit airport. Multiple-entry airport transit visas can be valid for up to six months.

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Limits of the record
  • No maximum connection time or airport-change rule stated.
  • https://eviza.mae.ro/home/TypeOfVisa
    However, this visa does not allow its holder to leave the international transit area of an airport, even if they have to wait overnight.
  • https://eviza.mae.ro/home/SupportingDocuments
    The Member State competent for examining and deciding on an application for an airport transit visa shall be: (a) in the case of a single airport transit, the Member State on whose territory the transit airport is situated; or (b) in the case of double or multiple airport transit, the Member State on whose territory the first transit airport is situated.
  • https://eviza.mae.ro/home/TypeOfVisa
    Multiple-entry airport transit visas can be issued for a maximum validity period of six months.

If permission is required, what permission is it, where/how is it obtained, and what core onward-travel evidence is required?

The permission is a Schengen airport transit visa (type A), allowing transit through the international transit area during a stopover or transfer of an international flight. It is applied for at the Romanian diplomatic mission or consular post competent for the applicant's domicile or residence; supporting documents include documents on the final destination after the transit and information showing the applicant does not intend to enter the member states' territory.

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  • https://eviza.mae.ro/home/TypeOfVisa
    A Schengen airport transit visa entitles foreign nationals who are required to hold such a visa to transit through the international transit area of airports, without entering the national territory of the state concerned, during a stopover or transfer of an international flight.
  • https://eviza.mae.ro/home/SupportingDocuments
    A visa application is lodged at the diplomatic missions or consular posts of Romania competent in the area of domicile or residence of the applicant.
  • https://eviza.mae.ro/home/SupportingDocuments
    a) documents regarding the final destination after the expected airport transit; b) information that allows the assessment of the applicant's intention not to enter the territory of the member states.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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