Can you travel to India with a valid visa in the old passport?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 25 Jul, 2023
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To add to the answer above, I was allowed to board the flight using this combination, but it took Qatar gate agents in Barcelona 20 minutes to confirm this, including calling phones and bringing in no less than four different people. So if you do this, make sure you account for this extra time, i.e. don’t be the last in the boarding line at the gate.
Update2: every single hotel I checked in in India also wanted to see a visa, and some were confused seeing it in another passport. Also took some extra time, although was never refused check-in.
Update3: when you leave India, you also need to present the old passport with visa, so don’t pack it into your check-in luggage.
The “original” IATA interface of Timatic, on which the information seen by check-in clerks is based, says:
Valid visas in expired passports are still acceptable,
provided accompanied by a valid passport of the same
nationality of the expired passport.
It’s located in Visa -> Additional information, which is the section the link leads to.
IATA Travel Centre (which is what United uses) is not Timatic, only an engine based on Timatic. It sometimes doesn’t even keep up with updates in Timatic, another proof of them not being the same thing.
What check-in staff uses, however, is the actual Timatic, and it is also where the latest info from the world’s governments is found.
So yes, you can enter India on your new and old passports combined
Credit:stackoverflow.com‘
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