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Old Nov 18, 2008, 12:01 pm
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alex_photo
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
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T4S->T4S transit visa needed ?

Hello JDiver
I can see you're a specialist.
My situation is a little different.
My friend is Peruvian and we'd like to go to Morroco with Iberia, connecting in Madrid T4S.
Her flight from Lima arrives in T4S, and her next connecting flight to Morroco also leaves from T4S.

So the situation is coming from non Schengen, going to non Schengen.

Iberia tells us that she doesn't need an Airport Transit Visa.. but at the same time they say "you never know.. maybe immigration check might deny the transit".

Since it's the same terminal T4S, it would be logical that there is no immigration check.
That's what i'd like to know.. is there or not ?

I remember very well arriving twice in T4S, but connecting to T4 to go back to France, and there of course i had to go through immigration.

Unlike Iberia, the Spanish embassy tells us of course that she DOES NEED the transit visa. And then they take every silly argument to refuse it (but that's another story).

So we'd like to know.. could we trust the words of Iberia, and proceed with our tour, or do we risk a control and a refusal, and our entire tour collapses ?

Is there also the risk that Iberia suddenly changes the terminal of arrival/departure, and that she finally HAS to change terminal, and then go through immigration check ?

Thanks very much for any insight.
Alex
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