Check if you need a UK visa: Information based on your answers
You may need a Direct Airside Transit Visa
You’ll need a Direct Airside Transit visa if you’re a refugee and originally from one of these countries:
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- China
- Congo
- Cote d’Ivoire
- Cyprus
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- The Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- India
- Iran
- Iraq
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Kosovo
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Malawi
- Moldova
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Pakistan
- Palestinian Territories
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Turkey
- Uganda
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe
Otherwise you do not need a visa.
Your answers
- What’s your nationality as shown on your passport or travel document?
- Stateless or Refugee
- Change What’s your nationality as shown on your passport or travel document?
- What are you coming to the UK to do?
- Transit (on your way to somewhere else)
- Change What are you coming to the UK to do?