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Why is electronic travel authorization (such as ESTA) ranked worse than eVisa or Visa on Arrival? I always feared (maybe for no reason) that with visa on arriv
by yoz-y 7y ago
Why is electronic travel authorization (such as ESTA) ranked worse than eVisa or Visa on Arrival?
I always feared (maybe for no reason) that with visa on arrival one can still get refused, but now you are already in the country.
- pledg 7y agoYou can still get refused entry with an ESTA
- raphaelj 7y agoDoesn't that hold for a e-VISA too ?
- antihero 7y agoYeah this is ridiculous, I've applied for an ESTA in a taxi to Gatwick and printed it before boarding. So strange.
- LeonM 7y agoDon't do that. Your ESTA application can be 'randomly' selected for further inspection, which will cause a delay up to a couple of weeks before you get it. This happened to me, I was happy I applied well in advance of my trip. IIRC, it took 3 weeks before I got the confirmation email.
- antihero 7y agoShit, that's fucked up. I did get grilled for about 6 hours at LAX by dudes who were like why are you even here and I was like I don't really know, I just kinda thought it would be fun.
- highhedgehog 7y agoMaybe Visa has stricter requirements for approval than ESTA?
- yoz-y 7y agoWouldn't that make the visa worse than ESTA? To me ESTA was the closest thing to free entry.
- tialaramex 7y agoYou can always be refused entry. The closest to an exception is that you may have some sort of permanent right of entry as a citizen for example, but the determination that you're eligible for entry on that basis is a decision for the exact same people who can refuse you entry. In the US courts have accepted the government's theory that it's allowed to basically treat anybody who it doesn't let in as non-American and so they don't have any rights, including the right to have a court look into whether actually they have right of entry and so should have been let in.