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I have a friend who is an Israeli citizen but currently only has a Russian passport. They will be traveling from Israel to Dominican Republic with a layover in either Spain, Germany, or France.

The websites of the countries listed above seem to say you only need an Airport Transit Visa if you are from certain countries (not including Russia), otherwise you are fine to layover with no extra documentation/visa. Is this true? Their layover will be less than 12 hours.

Additionally, will they have to go through some sort of passport control before changing flights? The layover for the flight they want is one hour but I'm thinking this won't be enough.

Edit: Yes the flights will be booked through a single booking.

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If the two flights are booked separately, or if there are two or more connection airports inside Schengen, they will need a (full) visa (and one hour is very unlikely to be enough to make the connection).

Otherwise, with a single hop inside Schengen and the two flights on the same ticket, they will stay airside (in the sterile international transit area) and won’t have to go through passport control.

Some nationalities require an airport transit visa in that situation, but this is not the case unless they transit through France and arrive from an airport in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Turkey or Egypt.

So at this time a Russian national arriving from Israel will not need an ATV. Note that can change over time, sometimes with very little notice.

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