Timeline for What happens if an airport is evacuated but a transit passenger doesn't hold a travel document valid for entering the country?
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| Aug 7, 2017 at 23:15 | comment | added | Scott Severance | It was crazy, for sure. | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 23:13 | comment | added | user541686 | You were on the tarmac from 10 am to 12 am? That's completely nuts. If I recall correctly in the US there are regulations that limit the amount of time sitting in the airplane to something like 1.5 or 2.5 hours (I don't recall exactly but they had to let us out after one of those when this happened to me)... | |
| Aug 7, 2017 at 16:37 | comment | added | onin | I was in China twice last year, and got a free one day Visa as well (I'm from Croatia). | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 17:14 | comment | added | user1242321 | I stand corrected. @ScottSeverance . My comment was from my experience, did not care to check my facts right. It is strange to hear that they let people exit without the proper visa issuance. | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 15:04 | comment | added | Scott Severance | To confirm Patric's comment, my story happened in 2009. | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 13:14 | comment | added | Patric Hartmann | @user1242321 : Additionally to Scott's comment: China does not issue these 3-day-visas for that long yet (2014? I couldn't find anything on the quick). So the story might well have happened BEFORE the introduction of such visas and even if not, stories like this one surely happened before the introduction of the 3-day-visas. | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 3:28 | comment | added | Scott Severance | @user1242321: There may be a difference between passport countries, or perhaps the dates of our respective visits. What I do know is that the stamp in my passport clearly stated that it was a visa, with a handwritten expiration date (the next day). | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 3:23 | comment | added | user1242321 | China provides three day visa free transit to all the passengers, so you did not need to have a Visa to exit the airport. They just stamp the passport for exit and you can come back at your flight time later. I have exited in China without visa on my ten hour transit to go check out the great wall once. | |
| Aug 6, 2017 at 3:09 | history | answered | Scott Severance | CC BY-SA 3.0 |