With separate tickets, you leave the airport to collect your bags: it's the country's entry rules that count, not the transit rules.
44
No visa
For a short stay, your passport is enough.
61
Online formality
Electronic authorisation or e-visa, often paid, to sort out before you go.
93
Visa required
A visa to get in advance: avoid these stopovers with separate tickets.
Rules as of 17 February 2026, from Passport Index cross-checked with Timatic (the airlines’ database): when they disagree, we keep the stricter one. Rules change: check with the embassy before you go.