Originally Posted by
dhuey
Yes, that makes sense. If you land, say, in Frankfurt, go through immigration, and then catch a flight to Italy, you crossed the German national border and visited Germany. You were free to head into town and get a brat or pretzel before your connecting flight. Same idea if you had flown into Frankfurt from Italy for a connecting flight back the the USA.
Agreed - in this case you cleared immigration, left the airport, so in effect you visited the country, even if for a few hours. What I was saying is; if you were simply transiting through without actually ever leaving the airport immigration, that doesn't need to be listed.