Each time one visits the embassy or consulate, the
officials at the diplomatic offices direct visa applicant to submit a colossal Amount
of documents resulting in confusion and at times, frustration. Among the
documents that an embassy or consulate of the destination country may ask is Flight Itinerary for visa application.
The aforementioned document is also dubbed as or refer
to by:
• Flight
Itinerary for Visa Application
• Air
Ticket Booking
• Dummy
Air Ticket for Visa
• Dummy
Ticket
• Flight
Confirmation
• Round
Trip Reservation
• Travel
Itinerary
All these wide arrays of terms used as alternative
expressions to explain a single document become the cause of great anxiety. And
at times, a visa applicant can lose his hard-earned cash by paying for real
Flight Ticket, even knowing beforehand that the embassy or consulate can deny
him a visa.
Flight
Itinerary for Visa Application
In layman term, “It is a verifiable document issued by
an airline, travel agency or an online service provider to confirm that visa
applicant has booked/paid for a flight seat on an aircraft.”
Technically speaking, “A Flight Itinerary for visa
application is the proposed route of an airline information such as flight
name, departure/arrival timings along with dates, flight code,
departure/arrival airport IATA codes (Ex: FRA is IATA code for Germany’s
Frankfurt International Airport, BLR for India’s Kempegowda International
Airport and LCY for Britain’s London City Airport) and flight
reservation/booking numbers.”
Flight Itinerary is further classified into two
categories:
• One-way
or Open Flight Itinerary
• Roundtrip
Flight Itinerary
One-way
or Open Flight Itinerary
AOne-way or Open Flight Itinerary contains details of the
applicant’s entrance into the host nation. It does not mention the date of
departure.
In the expert’s opinion, the aforesaid itinerary is
not the right choice for a visa application. As it stirs suspicions—in the
minds of the staffers at the diplomatic offices—that the applicant might
overstay in the country or extend his stay illegally. Thus, a one-way Flight
Itinerary leaves a negative impression on the minds of the staffers at the
corresponding embassy or consulate that the applicant has no intention
whatsoever to return back to his/her home country.
Roundtrip
Flight Itinerary
It illustrates the dates of both your arrival in and
departure from the host nation. The aforesaid itinerary gives satisfaction to
staffers at the embassy or consulate that applicant does not have intentions to
extend his/her stay in the host nation and will leave the country as soon as
possible, once his/her visit is completed.
It also helps visa officials to determine the number
of days that the applicant will spend in the host nation. They arrive on
aforesaid conclusion on the basis of applicant’s arrival and departure dates
mentioned on the roundtrip flight itinerary. In simple words, a roundtrip
flight itinerary helps visa officials in determining the duration and validity
of the visa.
Besides, the document also helps visa officials to
determine whether the applicant has arrived at the accurate embassy or not.
Let us explain it to you with a simple example of the
Schengen Area.
A SchengenVisa allows its holder to visit as many as 26 countries. Now the
question emanates that if the applicant wants to travel to more than one
Schengen Country, in which embassy he/she should apply?
In that scenario, the applicant will apply to that
embassy or consulate of the country where he/she is planning to spend his/her
time most. Such a country is often dubbed as or refer to by ‘main destination’.
However, if the applicant intends to stay in all
countries for the same duration, then he/she will apply at the embassy or
consulate of the country which he/she is planning to enter first.
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