Espar Rüggli
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 Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 12:49 am Post subject: Re: Visas to travel to USA. |
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1. what happens in October is that foreign passports that are not OCR
scannable are no longer eligible for visa waivers. Nearly all British
passports are scannable.
2. the general rule was (don't know about today) that an "indefinite"
"multiple entry" B1-B2 visa in an expired ppt was good for one further entry
if you brought it with your new ppt. I suspect that rule is now overtaken by
events since all the countries whose ppts were eligible for such visas are,
I think, now eligible for visa waiver.
On 08/08/03 18:46, in article
0mRYa.158621$hV.10358337@twister.austin.rr.com, "TheWanderer"
<nobody@spamcop.net> wrote:
| Quote: | No. The travel through US now requires a tour visa even if the are just
passing through on to another country.
You are not affected. The visa waiver still is there
And this is only temporary
"Derek F" <lordpilrig@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:bh0naq$sre1g$1@ID-107529.news.uni-berlin.de...
Is it correct that from October, British (and presumably other) travellers
to the US who will be touring will need a full visa as the visa waiver
scheme is being discontinued unless one can prove that they are staying at
one address for the entire visit and that they can give full details of it
including phone number and zip code.
Will my old multi entry visa issued in 1980 and stamped in an old passport
still be valid? When that passport expired I have continued to carry it on
visits to the US along with my old passport. I present it to immigration
when I made side trips into Canada or Mexico and in the past they have
laboriously copied the details into the new passport.
Derek.
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Alec
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| Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 4:05 am Post subject: Re: Visas to travel to USA. |
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"Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Derek F writes:
Is it correct that from October, British (and presumably
other) travellers to the US who will be touring will need
a full visa as the visa waiver scheme is being discontinued
unless one can prove that they are staying at one address
for the entire visit and that they can give full details of it
including phone number and zip code.
Not quite.
For travel to the U.S., persons holding U.K. passports must have a
machine-readable passport, must be travelling only for business,
pleasure, or transit, and must be staying in the U.S. for 90 days or
less (all three condtions must be satisfied). Otherwise, a
non-immigrant visa is required.
These provisions also apply to nationals of Andorra, Australia, Austria,
Belgium, Brunei, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland,
Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, New
Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden, and Switzerland.
If travelling by air, these nationals must also be in possession of a
return or onward ticket; if they have onward tickets and these tickets
terminate in Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, or the Caribbean Islands, the
traveller must also be a legal permanent resident of the final
destination.
Finally, the visa waiver for air travellers requires that the air
carrier be a participant in the visa waiver program, and the traveller
must complete form I-94W, normally provided by the air carrier.
The U.S. suspended the TWOV and ITI programs, which allow transit travel
through the U.S. without visas, on August 2, 2003, and until further
notice. However, persons eligible for the Visa Waiver Program, as
described above, are not affected by this change.
Also any children who are included in the parents' passport must have own |
passport for visa waiver or separate visa.
Alec |
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