Check if you need a UK visa: Information based on your answers

You’ll need a visa to pass through the UK in transit

You normally need a Direct Airside Transit visa if you arrive in the UK on a flight and leave again without passing through immigration control.

Exemptions

You do not need a Direct Airside Transit visa if you have one of the following:

• a visa for Canada, New Zealand, Australia or the USA (this can be used for travel to any country)
• a permanent resident visa issued by Australia or New Zealand
• a common format residence permit issued by an European Economic Area (EEA) country or Switzerland
• a permanent resident card issued by Canada on or after 28 June 2002
• a uniform format category D visa for entry into a country in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland
• an Irish biometric visa (marked ‘BC’ or ‘BC BIVS’ in the ‘Remarks’ section)
• a Schengen Approved Destination Scheme (ADS) group tourism visa where the holder is travelling to a Schengen country
• a flight ticket from the Schengen area, if you can prove that you entered the Schengen area in the previous 30 days on the basis of a valid Schengen ADS visa
• a valid USA I-551 Temporary Immigrant visa issued by the USA (a wet-ink stamp version will not be accepted)
• a valid USA permanent residence card issued by the USA on or after 21 April 1998
• an expired USA I-551 Permanent Residence card issued by the USA on or after 21 April 1998, with a valid I-797 letter authorising extension
• a valid standalone US Immigration Form 155A/155B issued by the USA (attached to a sealed brown envelope)

All visas and residence permits must be valid.

E-visas or e-residence permits are not acceptable unless your airline is able to verify it with the issuing country. Contact your airline for more information.

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• What’s your nationality as shown on your passport or travel document?: Turkey
• What’s your nationality as shown on your passport or travel document?: Change
• What are you coming to the UK to do?: Transit (on your way to somewhere else)
• What are you coming to the UK to do?: Change
• Where are you travelling to?: Somewhere else
• Where are you travelling to?: Change
• Will you pass through UK border control?: No
• Will you pass through UK border control?: Change