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Old Dec 19, 2024 | 7:02 pm
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Originally Posted by moondog
You seem to be conflating TWOV with permission to enter the country during transit, which is discretionary and, often not granted during daytime layovers < ~8 hours, in cases where remaining in a sterile area is possible.
I am referencing instances of people expecting to be able to make use of TWOV to leave the sterile area of the airport during their layover, and being unable to as their layover was nor considered long enough.

Any "conflation" is theirs, but it's one I recognise I and others could easily fall into the trap of due to confusing information

Is it laid out anywhere what the minimum layover in order to get TWOV permission to leave the sterile area of the airport is?
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