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Wasn't aware that Swedes needed visas to visit the U.S, wonder why that is.
by microcolonel 8y ago
Wasn't aware that Swedes needed visas to visit the U.S, wonder why that is.
- ajdlinux 8y agoIf you're not arriving by land from Canada or Mexico, you need to at least have an ESTA, even if you're from a US-friendly Western country. If you're denied an ESTA (as in this case) you have to go through the regular visa process. This applies to Swedes, Brits, Australians...
- 0xFFFE 8y ago> US-friendly Western country. Wouldn't that be Eastern countries, technically speaking? unless you used it as a synonym for "First" world countries.
- microcolonel 8y agoSeems to me that the visa-free program should be expanded to include more VWP countries. Not sure how much risk we'd incur from accepting Icelanders sans ESTA.
- cozzyd 8y agoHmm is that why Canada is likely to deny him entrance as well?
- tedunangst 8y agoThat sounds like rumor, but Canada does require eTA (basically same thing) for everyone who's not from the US.
- tluyben2 8y agoUsually, entry cards (the ones you get on the plane before landing) contain something like; 'have you been denied access to a country in the past 2 years?' Or something like that. You can lie ofcourse, but...
- ezequiel-garzon 8y agoThey do only when their ESTA applications are denied, as in his case. ESTA applications in turn were not required a few years ago.
- moogly 8y agoIf you by "a few" mean "9".
- roywiggins 8y agoI am honestly not sure why Americans get to travel to Schengen without filing any paperwork while the reverse isn't true. I can show up in Paris CDG with a passport and get let into... all of Europe, hardly any questions asked. You would think the Europeans would get fed up with the arrangement and start imposing similar requirements reciprocally. Ed: ah, they are a bit fed up at least https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/us-nationals-to-be-forced-to-apply-to-visas-eu-reciprocity/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/us-nationals-to-be-f...
- microcolonel 8y agoFor what it's worth, visa-free travel is not really a privilege extended by a country, but an expression of their degree of trust. Many European countries accept U.S. travellers without any additional filings because they trust U.S. passport holders, generally speaking (except the ones they have files on, in which case they'll already be following that up when you get there). The U.S. does not necessarily trust Swedish passport holders in the same way that Sweden trusts U.S. passport holders.
- psergeant 8y agoThey don’t. They use a visa waiver program. The author was unable to make use of the visa waiver program having been flagged. As a result, now the author does need a visa.