Travellers from India won’t need airport transit visa for France

Indians travelling to France will no more need an airport transit visa according to the latest announcement made by France effective July 23.

Alexandre Ziegler, the French ambassador to India, tweeted recently to announce that with effect from July 23, 2018, Indian passport holders will not be required anymore to get an Airport Transit Visa (ATV) in order to pass through the international zone airports located across France.
As a rule, travellers who are only transiting the Schengen territory, and who won’t leave the transit zone of the airport, are supposed to have an airport transit visa. However, tourists, who want to spend a night in the hotels located outside the transit area would require a regular tourist visa.

There are two kinds of transit visa within the Uniform Schengen visa group meant for tourists, who are through by a Schengen member nation to visit their desired destination. France forms part of the Schengen Area that comprises 26 European states that have officially abolished passport and all other types of border control at their mutual borders.
For the unacquainted, France is a part of the Schengen Area that features 26 European nations that have officially nullified passport and other border control rules at the borders they share. Reportedly, in 2016, about 1,85,000 Indian business travellers visited France. Given the new airport transit visa rule introduced by the French government, more and more Indians will be able to visit France with ease henceforth.