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Where does it say that? ESTA doesn't appear and searching waiv only turns up: > The fee applies to all visitors who need nonimmigrant visas to enter, and canno
by xnorswap 1y ago
Where does it say that? ESTA doesn't appear and searching waiv only turns up:
> The fee applies to all visitors who need nonimmigrant visas to enter, and cannot be waived.
Which sounds like the opposite of "no fee"?
- dmurray 1y agoESTA is not a visa. It's specifically the process to enter America for people who do not need a visa.
- rwmj 1y agoIt's called a visa waiver, but it's effectively a lightweight visa process. Look at what it involves, not what it is called.
- dragonwriter 1y agoIt is a lightweight pseudo-visa process, but it does not involve anything which is actually legally a visa, so a program that is attached to non-immigrant visas does not apply to it. What things are called in law matters quite a lot.
- rwmj 1y agoFor sure, I'm not disputing this.
- testing22321 1y agoESTA is just the authorization to apply, nothing to actually get you into the country. With an ESTA in hand, an eligible visitor must get an I-94 visa waiver at the border for $6. Even with a valid ESTA this can be denied. Source: at this point I’ve had 4 dozen of them over the last two decades.
- dragonwriter 1y agoThe visa waiver program does not require those eligible to get non-immigrant visas (hence the phrase “visa waiver”), so if the scope of the new program is, in fact, “all visitors who need non-immigrant visas”, those eligible for visa waivers would be outside its coverage.