What counts as a "visit" for immigration forms?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 20 Jul, 2023
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Better safe than sorry. If you claim to have visited a country but never left the airport, what will happen to you? Nothing. They may say “tell me about your visit to X” and you will say “actually I never left the airport, it was a connection” and that’s that. No consequences.
But if you leave it off, and they say “well how did you get from A to B?” and you say “I transited through C” and then they say “why didn’t you list C on here?” then suddenly you’re a person whose answers on the form might not be complete.
I recently had to list ten countries to answer that question. I listed them all. Just do it.
It is normally considered a visit if you are processed by Customs and Immigration, which you don’t usually do on a connecting flight.
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