Bulgaria: Whether a Bulgarian national needs a visa to transit Germany when he or she does not leave the transit lounge of the airport
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 10 November 2000 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | BGR35627.E |
| Reference | 2 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Bulgaria: Whether a Bulgarian national needs a visa to transit Germany when he or she does not leave the transit lounge of the airport, 10 November 2000, BGR35627.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3df4be122c.html [accessed 10 October 2022] |
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On 9 November 2000 an official at the Embassy of Germany in Ottawa stated the following:
According to current regulations Bulgarian citizens do indeed need a so-called airport-transit visa if they are changing planes at a German airport, even if they do not exit the transit lounge.
However, if they hold either a valid visa or residence permit for a member country of the European Union or another member country of the agreement of 2 May 1992 about the European economic area (these countries are: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland), Canada (if they are landed immigrants in Canada, they would require a returning resident permit with their landed immigrant paper), Switzerland or the USA, or if they hold a diplomatic passport, they do not require an airport-transit visa (holders of diplomatic passports do not require visitors' visas either).
This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
Reference
Embassy of Germany, Ottawa. 9 November 2000. Correspondence.
