Is transit visa required for The Netherlands

[RS_IL]

For those travelling to India on AP. Thanks.

 

[rg585]

Not according to the Query on the Netherlands Embassy website.
Here are the results, you can do it yourself as well.

http://www.netherlands-embassy.org/visainquiry.asp

Visa Inquiry Result
March 11, 2003
Inquiry date: March 2, 2004
Citizen of: India
Status in US: unlisted status
Resident of: Georgia
Travel document: passport issued by authorities of India
Duration of stay: less than 12 hours
Purpose of stay: airport transit
First country: Netherlands
Second country: Other
Main destination: other


Based on the above mentioned information the following has been concluded:


an airport transit visa is not required.
Please note that each traveller needs to hold a valid passport and a return/onward airline ticket. In addition to that, visitors to the Netherlands need to present proof of sufficient funds and medical insurance upon arrival. Travellers should not present a danger to public order or national security.

 

[peace_of_mind]

Even though there is a increased in security check on boarding flights from AMS to any destination in US, it is safer to travel via AMS than London. Citizens of India need not have a transit visa. Unless some change has come in last 24 hrs.

 

[Willows]

In 1998, I was on H1-B and was to travel via Amsterdam on Singapore Airlines. I had heard rumours about a transit visa being required and got contradicting information from the airline 800 number on various calls and my travel agent who insisted nothing was needed. I contacted the Singapore airlines airport manager who is the final authority in the airlines at the airport who decides if you can board the plane and I was told this: if you are travelling by an airline other than NWA-KLM you do need a transit visa and he said he would not allow me to board the plane if I did not have one. I changed my route. Of course this was 1998 and I was on H1-B!
My wife did travel last year to India with her AP via AMS on NWA and she did not need a transit visa.

You might want to check the transit visa requirement thoroughly!