The Immigration (Passenger Transit Visa) (Amendment) Order 2022

Made: 10th May 2022

Laid before Parliament: 11th May 2022

Coming into force: 12th May 2022

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 41 and 166(3) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999[^f00001], makes the following Order.

Citation and commencement

1

• (1) This Order may be cited as the Immigration (Passenger Transit Visa) (Amendment) Order 2022.

• (2) This Order comes into force on 12th May 2022.

Amendment to the Immigration (Passenger Transit Visa) Order 2014

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• (1) The Immigration (Passenger Transit Visa) Order 2014[^f00002] is amended as follows.

• (2) In Schedule 1 (countries or territories whose nationals or citizens need transit visas), at the appropriate place, insert “El Salvador”.

Transitional provision

3

Nothing in article 2 applies in respect of a national or citizen of El Salvador transiting through the United Kingdom who—

• (a) arrives in the United Kingdom before 9th June 2022, and

• (b) before the date this Order comes into force already held a booking for that journey.

Signed

Kevin Foster — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Home Office — 10th May 2022

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Immigration (Passenger Transit Visa) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/2702) which requires certain passengers to hold a transit visa to pass through the United Kingdom without entering whilst transiting to another country.

Schedule 1 to that Order sets out a list of countries or territories whose nationals or citizens need transit visas, and this Order adds El Salvador to that list.

Article 3 contains a transitional provision to disapply the requirement for a transit visa to people who at the time this Order comes into force had already booked travel to the United Kingdom to arrive before 9th June 2022.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1999 c. 33.

[^f00002]: S.I. 2014/2702 was amended by S.I. 2015/657 and S.I. 2015/1534.