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Visitors to the UK from 48 countries must now apply and pay a fee before travel
- paranoidrobot 2y agoAll this "Oh, no, you're not applying for a visa, you're applying for authority to travel" is such bullshit. It's just a Visa in a trenchcoat.
- ksec 2y ago>The apps — for iPhone and Android — boast of being quicker, with 10-minute processing times 10 min is not quick in modern world. Especially when previously it was 0. May be the whole world government could just make a single Visa application that they all agree on and just let me pay automatically when I buy a plane ticket. Charge me 50% more than what you are charging now. ( around $6? ) and get rid of the hassle. Instead they are introducing MORE bureaucracy.
- Havoc 2y ago>Charge me 50% more than what you are charging now. ( around $6? ) and get rid of the hassle. The cost is completely notional & arbitrary with these visa waivers. Doubling it doesn't make it faster/better somehow. >Especially when previously it was 0. As the article stated...blame the country that kicked off this trend. It's reciprocal to the US ESTA.
- jacobp100 2y agoIt’ll take a lot longer in the EU. You need fingerprints taken there
- paulb73 2y agoWhen I last travelled to the USA from the UK, it took weeks to get the ESTA. Might be quicker now, but 10 minutes sounds like lightning to me!
- dagw 2y agoSome people seem to get their application flagged for manual review, and that can take a long time. Otherwise it takes less than 20-30 minutes to get a reply in my experience.
- shubb 2y agoThe UK introduced this to mirror / sync with the EU ETIAS evisa system introduced recently, which in turn mirrors the US ESTA eVisa. They all cost about the same. It's interesting how UK stories are reported.