Visa for travel through Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic?

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Travel to the Schengen area requires a visa unless you are a citizen from a nation which is allowed visa-free entry (Austrian list here), or you qualify for different travel rules some other way. If you need a visa:

  • US residency makes getting a visa more likely because you already live in an industrialized country. There are relatively few illegal immigrants from the US to Europe, and Europeans don't worry much about them.
  • A valid US visa makes getting a visa slightly more likely because you have already been vetted by a relatively strict country, and because you would have the "opportunity" to overstay in the US instead of Europe. That makes it less likely that you become an illegal immigrant in Europe.

If you do require a visa, you have to apply only once. You apply at the main destination of your trip. Usually this is the country where you will stay longest.

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Yes, you need a Schengen visa.

I sense from the way that you've written your question that you've misunderstood what Schengen is. "Schengen visa" is like, say, "U.S. Visa", not like "tourist visa". The countries of the Schengen zone have decided that they will issue visas collectively, rather than each country issuing its own visas. There is no longer any such thing as an Austrian visa, Slovak visa or Czech visa: anybody travelling to any of those countries (and 23 others) who requires a visa requires a Schengen visa. (Analogously, there's no such thing as a Massachusetts visa: anybody who wants to travel there and who needs a visa needs to get a U.S. visa.)

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