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How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact
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this post was submitted on 25 Mar 2025
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I've never travel outside of Mexico before, but let's say, I do want to travel to a country that do not ask you for a visa, BUT, to get to that country my plane do need to make a stopover in the US. Do I do need visa just for that stopover in the US?
Not if you transfer directly to another plane, you only need a Visa if you go through passport control.
Most airports do it like this, but I've been to places hat need a transit visa just to get to your next flight. Odds are you are correct for a US connection.
Yeah it varies from one airport to another. It can also depends on layover time. In Hong Kong (on my way from Aus to Vietnam) I had to leave through customs to get to another part of the airport and enter through customs to get my connection. I was fingerprinted and facemapped both ways.
If I had been leaving via a gate closer to where I arrived, I wouldn't have had to do that.
Similar happened when connecting in Kuala Lumpur where the layover was 9 hours due to typhoon and the airline forced me to leave the airport, allegedly to go to a hotel they comped me, but I doubled back and snuck into a closed off area where someone forgot to lock out an elevator to sleep for a bit. They force you to leave the airport so there are fewer people just milling about for hours.