Skip leg Visa
May 3, 2019 | 6:11 am
#1
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Join Date: May 2019
Posts: 2
Skip leg Visa
I have a round-trip ticket the last leg of which has a long layover in Japan. Unfortunately, it may be that I won't be able to go to my original destination.
In light of this, I was considering leg-skipping and terminate my itinerary at Japan. I would book a one-way back. My concern though is that will it be a problem to get Japanese visa if I show my original flight ticket (outbound same day) and an additional one-way ticket for a later date (different destination). Thoughts?
In light of this, I was considering leg-skipping and terminate my itinerary at Japan. I would book a one-way back. My concern though is that will it be a problem to get Japanese visa if I show my original flight ticket (outbound same day) and an additional one-way ticket for a later date (different destination). Thoughts?
May 3, 2019 | 7:41 am
#2
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 3,698
No, it doesn't work like that (unless your long layover is actually a stopover)
Say you are flying ABC-tokyo-XYZ, XYZ being the final destination that you don't want to go to
At ABC airport, the airline checks if you have a valid visa to XYZ. No visa = no flight to tokyo
they don't care if you have a ticket from tokyo-somewhereelse - they will get fined by XYZ if you manage to land on XYZ without a visa, fined by Japan if you get stuck in Japan because u can't get to XYZ (and that airline is responsible to transport you back to ABC)
Best case is to talk to airline, check if you can change your ticket from XYZ to something else
Say you are flying ABC-tokyo-XYZ, XYZ being the final destination that you don't want to go to
At ABC airport, the airline checks if you have a valid visa to XYZ. No visa = no flight to tokyo
they don't care if you have a ticket from tokyo-somewhereelse - they will get fined by XYZ if you manage to land on XYZ without a visa, fined by Japan if you get stuck in Japan because u can't get to XYZ (and that airline is responsible to transport you back to ABC)
Best case is to talk to airline, check if you can change your ticket from XYZ to something else