Travel History Confusion For PR Application

[arvindnv]

Hello,

I visited Europe for Tourism and entered via Iceland and got a stamp there and took my connecting flight to Germany. My exit stamp was from Portugal.

My visa was Schengen Visa from Hungarian Embassy. I visited many countries and got only entry (Iceland) and exit (Portugal) Stamps in my passport.

In my travel history I am confused what to mention in
1. Country Visited?
2. City/Town or Region Visited?

Thank you in Advance

 

[Jojii]

I am sure a lot of other applicants have the same problem.
What I did was:

1/1/1990 - 5/1/1990 - Country x - City y
5/1/1990 - 6/1/1990 - Country a - City b

and so on, as best as I could remember. In my opinion if I took a connecting flight, it doesn't count as a trip per say.
So if I entered Europe via France and took a connecting flight via same airport to Norway, I actually never visited France.

So I just wrote Norway in my form.
I have not submitted my application, so I might be wrong. bu this is my understanding of the situation.

 

[Jojii]

You may also see it this way.
For example if you visited United States. You enter via Newyork and take a connecting flight to lets say, Chicago. Will you actually write Home Country to Newyork + Newyork to Chicago? No, you won't, right? You will write home country - Chicago. So its the same in this case. It were different cities in that case and different countries in this case.

The only thing I can think is when your previous stay in the connecting countries is long enough that some of your stays put you above the 6 months threshold. But I doubt that this is a very common occurrence.

 

[mattjp1]

I have a few China stamps in my passport, corresponding to transits. I just added a note saying that they are not actually trips but just transits to X Y or Z destination (Korea for my case where I used to work).