Hello. I had applied for a Hungarian visa. I wanted to travel for 8 days as tourist in Budapest and 2 days transit to go to England this year.i asked the visa officer if i need to apply seperately for transit visa and seperately for tourist visa.. he said that won't be necessary.. the visa I got is valid for 90 days maximum stay and valid for 1 year(march 2012) . Its a multiple entry C visa BUT THE REMARKS SAY "TRANSIT". It expires in march next year.
Hello!
Recommend reading this first: http://www.travellerspoint.com/guide/Schengen_Visa/
You can travel freely within Schengen zone, practically there are no borders, so there is no passport check usually. Most airports now have a free corridor to flights within the schengen zone, so you don't even have to go through immigration control.
List of schengen zone countries are on the above website.
Note: UK is not part of Schengen, they have separate borders and therefore checks. So, do check if you can travel to the UK as well.
Visa category "C" is normally not for transit, those are "A" and "B". So, please do check with the embassy again to make sure there is no confusion or mistake done to you visa.
Let me know if you have any questions regarding your stay in Hungary.
Happy travels!
thank you for the reply. I asked him about it. he said no one really bothers to ask at the immigration control of the 1st schengen state you enter.. it is a c visa.. only the remarks at the end of the visa says transit...
I too have received a Type C visa with remarks as Transit. I plan to travel by car from Bulgaria to the UK.
Did you have any issues at the immigration ? And throughout the Schengen zone?
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