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I hope someone can help me out with some info as I'm getting a lot of conflicting info.

I am landing in Terminal 1 on 3 January with United Airlines from New York and need to take a flight on Air France in Terminal 2E to South Africa. This is not a connecting flight as I have two separate tickets. I will need to collect my baggage from the carousel and then check in for an Air France flight.

I have a South African Passport, my Schengen Visa will have expired on 24 December, but I will have a valid US visa for that trip.

Will I need a visa to be in the airport to collect luggage from one airline and check in at another different airline to fly back home to South Africa?

The embassy says I don't need a Visa if I have a South AFrican Passport and am not leaving the International Zone of the airport. What is considered the "International Zone"?

TIA

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As @kebs said, since you have to pick up your luggage as well, you need to clear immigration for that: http://easycdg.com/travelling-terminal-1-terminal-2-cdg-airport/

I would say you definitely need a visa C (case 3 in the link provided by @Bhushan Kale definitely answers your question).

More info here:

https://france-visas.gouv.fr/en_US/web/france-visas/short-stay-visa

https://france-visas.gouv.fr/en_US/web/france-visas/airport-transit-visa

http://easycdg.com/passenger-information/connecting-flight-connections-paris-cdg-airport/transit-information/

http://easycdg.com/passenger-information/immigration-passport-paris-cdg-airport/

(edited based on the comment)

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