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Question
I am to have 2hrs stop-over in Amsterdam(KLM Airlines),do i need a transit visa.
You should not need a Transit visa because you will only be there 2 hours, and will likely not even exit the terminal.
The Dutch Embassy has a visa inquiry page:
http://www.netherlands-embassy.org/visainquiry.asp
You can use this to double-check, but it seems very, very unlikely that a simple layover requires any paperwork. After all, most European and Asian countries with whom the US enjoys good diplomatic relations have agreements so that tourists can visit for 15 days (sometimes more) without even as much as a tourist visa. In these cases, a passport and a return ticket is enough to satisfy the destination country.
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Matthew Smith
Expertise
CAN: Airport Security (NOT immigration).
Airport planning and design. Airport development.
Airline pricing/yield/revenue management (NOT prices for individual tickets)
grant process
PLEASE STOP ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW LONG IT TAKES TO FLY FROM A TO B!!!
PLEASE STOP ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW MUCH PARTICULAR AIRLINES WILL CHARGE FOR YOUR BAGS!
That's why your airline has a website!
Experience
Formerly Director of Operations at a small commercial airport.
Formerly worked for a state government issuing and managing airport development grants.
Formerly worked for TSA. (Not as bad as it appears to the average passenger.)
Formerly worked at an airport in planning and operations.
Also formerly worked as a Price Analyst for a wildly unpopular airline.
Currently teaching overseas until the job market improves.
Organizations
AAAE, AOPA, AzAA
Publications
Collegiate Aviation Review (2008)
Education/Credentials
B.A. English and Religious Studies, Hobart College
M.S. Aviation Management Technology, Arizona State University
--specialty is airport planning and design
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