My advice - don't wait until you are planning a US trip. If you are a regular traveller go straight to the ESTA registration page and complete the process. You do not have to have a specific travel date in mind and (if I read this right) only have to do it once.
I hope this public service announcement has been useful. Of course I am only writing this post so I have another excuse to use the Recombobulation photograph and tag the word again :)
Update - I made a mistake above in saving that the green form also has to be completed in this new ESTA world. The form (officially called an I-94W form) does not have to be completed for ESTA approved travellers. See ESTA FAQ pdf for more (page 12)
Update 2 - there is some real confusion here. Despite what I found above in the ESTA FAQ I was still required to fill in the green I-94W form on arrival in the US.
(thank you lark is already taken from Flickr for the fantastic photo)
8 comments:
so do we still need to be lining up and hearded like cats ?
sure - like very well trained cats wearing shock collars
Let's hope incoming administration makes the US more welcoming to international visitors.
your number three on google for "Recombobulation area blog"
and # 1 on the Americas most wanted under subsection "MEOW"
there is definitely something cold war era like in the experience of filling in a complicate form, being finger printed and photographed and then being welcomed by a smiling photograph of the benign and loving leader. Thanking in a few days time the photograph will be changed
I think you have single-handedly re-invented the english language with your brave and groundbreaking coinage of the word "wrighting".
@Mittins - thank you. Corrected! I hate it when the firefox spelling plugin ggoees on the frittzz. I cannt livve withhought it.
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