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 should apply for a Visitor in Transit visa if you arrive on a flight and will pass through immigration control before you leave the UK.

Transiting without a visa

You may be eligible to transit without a visa if:

• you arrive and depart by air
• have a confirmed onward flight that leaves on the day you arrive or before midnight on the day after you arrive
• have the correct documents for your destination (eg a visa for that country)

You must also:

• be travelling to (or on part of a reasonable journey to) Australia, Canada, New Zealand or the USA and have a valid visa for that country
• be travelling from (or on part of a reasonable journey from) Australia, Canada, New Zealand or the USA and have a valid visa for that country
• be travelling from (or on part of a reasonable journey from) Australia, Canada, New Zealand or the USA and it’s less than 6 months since you last entered that country with a valid entry visa
• have a permanent residence permit issued by Australia or New Zealand
• have a common format residence permit issued by an European Economic Area (EEA) country or Switzerland
• have a permanent residence permit issued by Canada on or after 28 June 2002
• have a uniform format category D visa for entry to a country in the EEA or Switzerland
• have an Irish biometric visa (marked ‘BC’ or ‘BC BIVS’ in the ‘Remarks’ section) and an onward flight ticket to the Republic of Ireland
• be travelling from the Republic of Ireland and it’s less than 3 months since you were last given permission, on the basis of holding a valid Irish biometric visa, to land or be in Ireland
• have a valid USA permanent residence card issued by the USA on or after 21 April 1998
• have a valid USA I-551 Temporary Immigrant visa issued by the USA (a wet-ink stamp version will not be accepted)
• have 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
• have a valid standalone US Immigration Form 155A/155B issued by the USA (attached to a sealed brown envelope)

You will not be able to transit without a visa if a Border Force officer decides you do not qualify under the immigration rules. You can apply for a transit visa before you travel if you’re unsure whether you qualify for transiting without a visa.

E-visas or e-residence permits are not acceptable for transiting through immigration control without a visa.

All visas and residence permits must be valid.

Australian paper confirmation slips are not accepted.

Transiting without a visa is decided by the immigration officer at the border. You will not be allowed to transit if they decide you need a visa, so you might want to apply for a transit visa before you travel.

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• What’s your nationality as shown on your passport or travel document?: Philippines
• 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?: Yes
• Will you pass through UK border control?: Change