US News New online visa travel rules to US take effect

enouwee

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The visitors to the US from 35 visa-waiver countries will be required to register online with the Department of Homeland Security in advance. The DHS is asking people to go online for the ESTA program 72 hours before traveling, but they can register any amount of time ahead.

Approval, once granted, is good for 2 years. DHS says that most applications are approved in 4 seconds. If an application is rejected, the traveler will have to go to a US embassy and get a visa. CNet reports that information from applications will be retained for 12 years, and eventually up to 75 years.

Read on.


I really like some of their questions:
  • Do you have a communicable disease; physical or mental disorder; or are you a drug abuser or addict?
  • Have you ever been arrested or convicted for an offense or crime involving moral turpitude or a violation related to a controlled substance; or have been arrested or convicted for two or more offenses for which the aggregate sentence to confinement was five years or more; or have been a controlled substance trafficker; or are you seeking entry to engage in criminal or immoral activities?
  • Have you ever been or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage; or in terrorist activities; or genocide; or between 1933 and 1945 were you involved , in any way, in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany or its allies?
  • Are you seeking to work in the U.S.; or have you ever been excluded and deported; or been previously removed from the United States or procured or attempted to procure a visa or entry into the U.S. by fraud or misrepresentation?
  • Have you ever detained, retained or withheld custody of a child from a U.S. citizen granted custody of the child?
  • Have you ever been denied a U.S. visa or entry into the U.S. or had a U.S. visa canceled?
  • Have you ever asserted immunity from prosecution?
Congratulations, yet another reason why I'll never ever travel to the United States.
 

Sim

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Somebody who can answer "yes" to any of those questions will certainly not do so, for this would be beyond stupidity.

What do they hope to achieve with that?
 
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