I am an Indian citizen travelling from India to Italy on a student visa via the UK. My flight stops at Heathrow for 2.5 hours. Will I be required to have a transit visa?
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Welcome to travel.SE. What is your citizenship? And where are you coming from? – Karlson Jun 25 '14 at 15:40
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@pnuts UK citizenship isn't the only condition to allow TWOV. – Karlson Jun 25 '14 at 15:42
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@Gagravarr Close but there is no US or US visa involved though the widget is the same. – Karlson Jun 25 '14 at 16:32
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2The other question mentions a “Schengen visa”, which might or might not be the same than what the OP has. – Relaxed Jun 25 '14 at 16:57
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The answer is given in the thread Karlson references: it's an easy question to look up from gov.uk/check-uk-visa . – choster Jun 26 '14 at 1:56
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Indian citizens generally do need a visa for airside transit at Heathrow but you are probably exempt from this requirement based on your Italian visa. Specifically, you are exempt if you:
have a valid uniform format category D visa for entry to a state in the European Economic Area (EEA)
An Italian student visa valid for more than three months would be a category D visa (whereas a short-stay Schengen visa would not). If I am not mistaken, it should look approximately like this:
