Do they stamp your indian visa when you transit?
Replies: 8 - Last Post: Jul 27, 2012 12:05 AM Last Post By: Julay2006
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Do they stamp your indian visa when you transit?
It would be great if someone could help me with this dilemma.We fly with Lufthansa into Delhi after that we would like to take a connecting flight with Jet airways. We will wait in the transit area and let our bags be transferred between our flights. Our flight back home is also from Delhi and we would really like to go overland from Nepal through India. The easiest way to arrange a visa for India would be in my home country. No we will get to the dilemma: we are a bit worried that the jet airways crew takes our passports through customs when they collect our bags from the Lufthansa flight. If so do they stamp our Indian visa, and making it as a consequence invalid from entering India on our way back? Does anyone have some experience with having a connecting flight in Delhi, with a valid visa for India in your passport and trying to enter India on a later base?
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Are you taking a connecting flight to Kathmandu (i.e. international)? In which case your passport shouldn't be stamped in Delhi as you are only transitting.If need be Delhi Airport / Jet staff will collect your bag from the Lufthansa flight for you, meaning you stay in the transit area. You might need to give them your baggage receipts not your passport.
Or it may be possible to check your bags right through to your final destination.
As long as you have your connecting flight already booked before boarding the flight to Delhi, don't worry.
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I think you must collect your bags and go through customs.I just flew into and out of Delhi on 2 different airlines.I had to collect.I was already in India,so maybe I am wrong.Check with the airline you are flying into Delhi first.4
I am sure if you are flying into and out of Delhi (internationally) with a short transit time you can do it without passing through immigration.You can always ring the airlines (e.g. Lufthansa and Jet Airways) beforehand to allay your anxieties.
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Thanks for the reaction jazzmanblues. We will indeed take two different international flight, they will arrive and leave from the same international terminal in Delhi airport (transfer time is around 5 hours). Reading through the posts about the transfer area in Delhi, i supose it will be possible to transfer the bags to another flight without going through costums. The only real worry is/was the possibility that they will need our passports to collect our bags for transfer and that they would stamp our visa somewhere when the staff member is going through costums with our passports. But as Farflung said they won't need the passport to collect our bags, so we would be fine.
