Lisbon layover of 20 hours with a Colombian passport, no visa

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Truly authoritative information (i.e. directly from the government of Portugal) is proving very difficult to find, though several tourism sources (e.g. 1, 2) state that a transit visa is not required for citizens of most countries as long as you remain airside.

The countries whose citizens do require an airport transit visa to transit Portugal even when remaining airside are listed as: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Congo (Dem Rep), Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Iraq, Iran, Liberia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Somalia and Sri Lanka.

There was no information I could find about a restriction on length of stay airside, except that you must take the "same or first connecting aircraft."

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Lisbon airport is open 24 hours a day so you could probably stay overnight even if that's uncomfortable. In practice, if you make it to Lisbon (i.e. the airline does not deny boarding), I don't think you would get in trouble.

The problem is that the transit must also be “short”. Countries do not always publish a strict guideline beyond that and I haven't been able to find any authoritative source for Portugal but in Germany for example it means less than 12 hours so you might not qualify for “airport transit privileges”.

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