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Flight Itinerary for Visa Application in the United States
A flight reservation built for the file, not a fare you're stuck with if the answer comes back no. Real airline, flight number, routing and PNR, delivered as a PDF within about a minute of paying – priced and charged in the same US dollars, with no conversion to guess at. Search from JFK, LAX, IAD, IAH, MIA, SFO or wherever your trip actually starts.
- ✓ Delivered by email inside about a minute
- ✓ A flight and PNR a consulate can actually check
- ✓ Priced in USD, charged in USD – nothing to convert
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- Real carrier & flight number
- Passengers
- As printed on the passport
- Reference
- Booking ref & PNR
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A dummy flight ticket for your US visa application
Most US passport holders don't need a visa for a short Schengen holiday – so if that's your trip, you can stop reading. This page is for the applications that still ask for one.
A US citizen can fly into the Schengen area for up to 90 days without a visa at all, and that hasn't changed. What hasn't changed either is that a long-stay national visa – study, work, or a stay past 90 days – is a completely different application, filed the same way any other mission's is: with a coherent, checkable travel plan rather than proof that a non-refundable ticket has already been bought.
France runs that long-stay process through a network of consulates general rather than one national office – New York, Washington DC, Houston, Miami and San Francisco among them – and which one you file at is decided by your state of residence, not your nationality or where you'd rather apply.
That residence rule is also why this page exists for people who aren't US citizens at all. A green card holder, or someone on an H-1B or F-1 visa, living in Texas and filing a Schengen application goes through the French consulate covering Texas – not a consulate back in the country on their passport. The flight this produces just needs to depart from wherever that consulate sits, not from home.
Brazil is the sharpest reason to check rather than assume: it reinstated the visa requirement for US, Canadian and Australian citizens in April 2025, after several years of being visa-free. A lot of advice still circulating online was written before that date and is simply wrong now – Brazil's e-visa application, like China's or Vietnam's, asks Americans for the same kind of onward travel plan every other nationality provides.
Buying the actual ticket while any of these files are open answers none of that. It's an itinerary you're negotiating a change or a refund on the moment an appointment date moves, which is outside your control once it's booked – and unlike every other country on this site, it wouldn't even save you a currency conversion, because the reservation and the real fare are both priced in the same dollars.
What this flight reservation for visa is for
Applicants in the United States asked to put a trip on paper before a mission has approved it – citizens and residents alike.
- ✓ France long-stay visa ("long séjour") – study, work, or a stay past 90 days
- ✓ Any Schengen national visa filed through the consulate covering your US state of residence
- ✓ China tourist or business visa
- ✓ Brazil e-Visa (reinstated for US citizens in April 2025)
- ✓ Vietnam e-Visa
- ✓ Saudi Arabia e-Visa or a GCC visit visa
- ✓ Any airline or immigration check asking for proof of onward or return travel
What a flight reservation for visa costs from the United States
One fee per itinerary no matter how many sectors it covers, plus a small addition for each traveller after the first. No card issuer sets the rate on the day here – the price you see is the price charged.
One sector in one direction – suited to a study move or a work relocation with no return date to show.
Departure and return together, the shape most long-stay and third-country Schengen files are actually checked against.
A single price at any number of sectors, including a trip that lands in Paris and leaves through Frankfurt, or the reverse.
- Each extra adult $15 · $15
- Each child (2–11) $10 · $10
- Each infant (under 2) $5 · $5
Charged in US dollars ($15 / $19 / $25) – the same currency already used locally, so there's nothing to convert.
Your provisional flight booking: search, list, pay, download
No account to open first, and no one to call before you start.
Find a flight that's actually operating
Put in your route and dates out of JFK, IAD, IAH, MIA, SFO, LAX or wherever the trip genuinely begins. The result is checked against live schedules, so it's a service that's really flying.
List every traveller
Enter every traveller's name exactly as it appears on the passport's data page, in that order – the whole trip goes on one document.
Pay $15
$15 one-way, $19 round-trip, $25 multi-city. Charged in US dollars, billed in US dollars – no card issuer sets a different figure tomorrow.
Collect the PDF
The instant your payment clears, it's sent. Order Lookup brings it back up later with your email and booking reference.
Paying for your provisional flight booking from the United States
The simplest payment story on this site, because there's no second currency involved anywhere in it.
Any US-issued card clears it directly
Visa, Mastercard, Amex or Discover – a standard debit or credit card works at checkout the way it would on any other US site, with no international transaction fee to budget for.
The number you see is the number charged
$15 one-way, $19 round-trip, $25 multi-city. There's no exchange rate between the figure on this page and the one on the statement, and nothing here moves overnight.
Nothing arranged by transfer or agent
Stripe takes your card details over an encrypted connection that never touches our servers directly. We'll never ask you to send money by bank transfer or through a third party.
That also means there's no daily rate to disclose on this page the way there is for every other country here – the price in the pricing section above is simply the price your statement will show.
What your dummy flight ticket actually shows
One PDF, sent within a minute of paying, laid out the way a consulate general or a visa centre expects proof of travel to read.
A dummy flight ticket naming an airline that's really on the schedule
Operating airline, flight number and aircraft type for each sector, pulled from live schedule data instead of typed into a template.
Every connection shown as its own leg
Airports, dates and times across the full journey, with any change of flight through a European or Asian hub set out openly rather than folded into a single line.
Names copied straight from the passport
Each traveller listed exactly as their data page prints it, next to a booking reference and PNR.
A reference that actually resolves
A lookup returns a genuine booking, because a real reservation is actually behind it – the whole point of using this over an edited image.
Departure airports for your dummy flight ticket from the United States
These six sit closest to the consulates general handling the largest share of long-stay and third-country Schengen filings, and all six are in the search index. Starting from anywhere else in the country – or outside it entirely – is no obstacle either.
| Airport | City | IATA |
|---|---|---|
| John F. Kennedy International Airport | New York | JFK |
| Washington Dulles International Airport | Washington DC | IAD |
| George Bush Intercontinental Airport | Houston | IAH |
| Miami International Airport | Miami | MIA |
| San Francisco International Airport | San Francisco | SFO |
| Los Angeles International Airport | Los Angeles | LAX |
Multiple daily nonstops on Air France, Delta and United. The French Consulate General in New York holds jurisdiction for most of the northeast, and this is the route its long-stay filers put on an itinerary most often.
United's daily nonstop. The Consulate General in Washington covers the mid-Atlantic, including a large share of the diplomatic and student-visa traffic filed from the capital region.
United's daily nonstop out of its Houston hub. The Consulate General here has jurisdiction across Texas and much of the south-central US, so it's rarely just Houston residents filing through it.
American Airlines' nightly nonstop – the route behind most Brazil e-Visa files, now that the visa requirement for US citizens is back in force as of April 2025.
United's nonstop out of the Bay Area. A Chinese tourist or business visa is filed on paper or through an authorised agent rather than online, and a specific flight is exactly what that application wants named.
Nothing flies this nonstop from the US west coast – expect a change through Seoul, Taipei or Tokyo, and put it on the itinerary as its own leg. Vietnam's e-Visa is issued in advance, but immigration can still ask for onward proof on arrival.
American visa applications that ask for a flight reservation
What's required, and by which office, depends entirely on where you're going and, if you're not a citizen, on which consulate has jurisdiction over you.
France (long-stay / national visa)
Study, work and long-stay visitor applications go through whichever consulate general covers your state of residence, not a single national office. The 90-day exemption that applies to a tourist trip does not apply here.
Schengen Area, as a third-country national
A green card holder or a work or student visa holder resident in the US files at the consulate covering their state, regardless of what passport they carry. The itinerary just needs to depart from wherever that is.
China
Tourist and business visas are still filed on paper or through an authorised visa agent, not online, and typically ask for a round-trip flight reservation as one of the supporting documents.
Brazil
Reinstated for US citizens on 10 April 2025 after several years of visa-free entry. The e-visa application asks for the same onward travel plan every other nationality already provides.
Vietnam
The e-Visa is approved in advance, but immigration officers on arrival can still ask to see an onward or return flight before waving a traveller through.
Saudi Arabia
The tourist e-visa covers most short visits, and proof of onward travel is sometimes checked at airline check-in as well as on the application itself.
Consulate jurisdictions and visa rules change without much notice – Brazil's April 2025 reversal is the clearest recent example. Confirm the current requirement, and your assigned consulate if applicable, before you file.
What gets a US flight reservation for visa sent back
The document itself rarely causes the setback. Nearly every issue traces back to the itinerary disagreeing with something else already in the file.
Filing at the wrong consulate
Jurisdiction runs by state of residence, not by nationality or preference. An application lodged at the wrong French consulate general is routinely bounced back to be refiled at the correct one, costing weeks rather than days.
Assuming Americans never need a visa in Europe
True for a two-week holiday, not true for a study programme, a job, or any stay past 90 days. Applicants who realise this late end up rushing a long-stay file that should have started months earlier.
Trusting outdated Brazil advice
Plenty of guides and forum posts online still say US citizens travel to Brazil visa-free. That stopped being true on 10 April 2025, and an itinerary built on the old assumption is an application that never gets filed at all.
A name that doesn't match the passport's data page
Whatever spelling or order you're used to using day to day, the application has to match the passport exactly – no shortened form, no reordering to fit a form's "first name, last name" fields. Copy it character for character.
A trip that contradicts the hotel booking or invitation
The itinerary is read next to whatever else supports the file – an invitation letter, a hotel reservation, an admission letter. A gap between the two is exactly what an officer notices, with no chance to explain it afterwards.
Ticketing the real flight to feel covered
Buying the actual fare "just in case" usually ends in a change fee once an appointment shifts, or the fare lost entirely on a refusal. The reservation absorbs that risk instead – book the real ticket only once the visa is granted.
Questions about your flight itinerary for visa from the United States
Questions applicants filing from the United States ask most before they order – citizens and residents alike.
I'm a US citizen going to Europe – do I even need a visa?
Not for a short tourist trip: 90 days visa-free is still the rule. You do need one for a study programme, a job, or any stay past 90 days – those are long-stay national visa applications, and they're what this page is built for.
I'm not a US citizen, but I live here – can I use this?
Yes. Schengen jurisdiction runs by state of residence, not nationality – a green card, H-1B or F-1 holder living in the US files at the consulate covering their state, and the itinerary just needs to depart from wherever that is.
Which French consulate am I supposed to file with?
Whichever one has jurisdiction over your state of residence – New York, Washington DC, Houston, Miami and San Francisco each cover a different part of the country. Check the current jurisdiction map before you file; it isn't a free choice.
Is it true Brazil now requires a visa for Americans?
Yes – reinstated on 10 April 2025 after several years of visa-free entry, alongside Canada and Australia. A lot of older advice online predates that change and is no longer accurate.
Am I meant to book the actual flight before I apply?
No – this stands in for the ticket at the application stage. The genuine fare gets booked once the visa is granted. Ticketing anything while a long-stay or third-country file is still open is exactly the exposure this avoids.
How much does a flight itinerary cost, and is the price actually in dollars?
$15 one-way, $19 round-trip, $25 multi-city, whatever the number of sectors on the multi-city document. Extra travellers run $15 per adult, $10 per child aged 2–11 and $5 per infant. Unlike every other country on this site, there's no currency conversion involved – the price is charged exactly as shown.
Is this a genuine reservation, or something generated to look like one?
It's a real reservation on a flight that's genuinely scheduled to operate. Airline, flight number, aircraft, routing and times are all pulled from live flight data, and the PDF carries a booking reference and PNR that Order Lookup can bring back later. It isn't a paid ticket – a reservation is exactly what most missions want at this point.
How fast will it reach me?
Inside a minute of paying, at any hour. Generating it the same morning as an appointment at a consulate or visa centre works fine.
Which US airport should I search from?
JFK, IAD, IAH, MIA, SFO and LAX are all in the search index and sit closest to the busiest consulate districts, but building an itinerary from any other US airport – or one outside the country entirely – is no obstacle.
What if a consulate actually checks the booking reference?
It resolves, because a real reservation sits behind it – that's the entire difference between this and an edited screenshot. What's actually under review is whether your travel plan is coherent, not whether an airline has already been paid.
What happens if the visa application is refused?
The charge covers producing and sending the document, independent of how the case turns out – that's the mission's call. It limits your risk to $15–$25, rather than an international fare you'd struggle to get back after a refusal.
Get your dummy flight ticket ready, not the real ticket bought
Search a live flight out of JFK, IAD, IAH, MIA, SFO, LAX or wherever your trip starts, add your travellers, and pay by card. The PDF is ready before the rest of the file comes together – $15, in the same dollars either way, with the real fare waiting until there's a visa to use it for.
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