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It's called a visa waiver, but it's effectively a lightweight visa process. Look at what it involves, not what it is called.
by rwmj 1y ago
It'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.