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I have finally booked in Qatar airways. They have introduced a new flight which is less expensive at the moment due to promotional discounts. QA transits via Doha and I would not be needing a transit visa for Doha.

[QUOTE=rajradio;469288]OP, most of the information given about transit visas is wrong. Transit visas for the UK are landside and airside. You dont need airside visa if your flight is leaving within 24 hours, from the same airport, and you have a valid document to enter the united states-like a B1 2 ...

[QUOTE=farfromhome;469264]Try Ethihad. It might turn out to be the cheapest (JFK-Abu Dhabi-Chennai). I don't think you would need transit visa for Abu Dhabi.[/QUOTE] True there is no visa for transiting via Abu dhabi or any of the gulf countries. Etihad is cheaper when considering only adults. But ...

Is a transit visa required even if we dont leave the airport?- Is transit visa required for travelling via gulf countries also? Any idea how much would be the cost of transit visa via london, abudhabi, dubai?
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[QUOTE=triveni;467928]For east coast from JFK or Dulles IAD Qatar airlines is awesome. Door to door 22 hours for me. Have done this a couple of times recently. Service and food is better than BA and AirIndia[/QUOTE] Thanks triveni. At the moment Qatar is working out much more expensive than BA. But ...

The American School and Gateway International are 2 different schools. The american school is in Taramani and follows the IB syllabus and Gateway international has both CBSE and IB streams, and you can choose either of them. Gateway is in latter part of OMR. The american school mostly contains ...

Dont go in for IGCSE if you are planning on making your kids compete in the Indian professional exams -- Choose one of the Indian boards like matriculation, state, CBSE or ICSE. If your job is transferable one, then go in only for CBSE or ICSE. [QUOTE=vidnand;456813]Hi all, We are returning to India ...

[QUOTE=srkpriv;436392]I have not done anything on the school front yet. I have two kids 10 and 4 studying 5th grade and preschool respectively. My question is if I move around September 2012 time frame would I be able to get admission in some good schools in Chennai (or Bangalore). I would have join ...

[QUOTE=zen;467783]Depends on when you are traveling. Remember, Air India is in trouble & have had lot of cancellations. Recently (end of May), my relatives who were supposed to fly from BOM to NY, their flight was cancelled because of the strike. They were put on a different airline via Delhi ...

Got it -- yesterday -- July 25th. No further documentation was asked... As information to those who need it -- I got it within 6 working days from submission of docs to VFS.