Airport Transit Visa or Transit Visa - that is the question

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sasha_g
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Hi,
I have a question about Schengen Visa and am posting it here, since I will be travelling through AMS/ CDG.
I have an Indian Passport and I stay in Malaysia.
I am travelling to South America with KLM via AMS and need to apply for a transit visa.
My itinerary looks like this:
KL - AMS - LIMA
EZE - CDG - AMS - KL.

I am a bit confused as to whether I should apply for Transit Visa or Airport Transit Visa?
On my way back, I am traveling from CDG to AMS and then taking the flight back to KL. So, I will be traveling between Schengen Countries, and hence should I apply for Transit Visa? But then, I will be in the international zone only - not leaving the airport - so should it be Airport Transit Visa?

Please help me with this, since the embassy here does not entertain any question before application of visa.

Thanks

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anonymous
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As you're travelling on an Indian passport, you don't need a transit visa in the whole of Schengen zone. Click here to compare.

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sasha_g
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Hi a_p,
Thanks for the link. Have visited that link too and some other links, from which I have come to this conclusion:

) Indian Passport Holders need Airport Transport Visa for France but not for Netherlands
b) Indian Passport Holders need transit visa to take a connecting flight from CDG to other cities in the Schengen area (Amsterdam in my case)

So, since I stay in the international area on my way from KL to Lima, don't need any visa for AMS stopover.
But I change flights within Schengen countries from EZE to CDG to AMS to KL - so I think I should apply for a Transit Visa from the French Embassy - and, hopefully, that should serve the purpose for my brief layovers (6-8 hrs max. in each transit point) in all the Schengen Airports that I cover during my travel.

I just need someone to validate this. Tried calling both French and Netherlands Embassy here - but apparently, they don't entertain any visa related questions over the phone.

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hello_bamboo
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your flight from CDG to AMS means you have to leave the airport transit area and clear immigration. So an airport transit visa will not be enough. Whether a transit visa suffices I don;t know.

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