Anyone travelled to the US recently? Changes to the Visa Waiver Programme?

[MarkUK]

An arrest is not a conviction. Or were you convicted?

I was only 14 and can not really remember. I had my fingerprints and everything taken. Never went to court or anything but I think it was a caution/reprimand or something.

[MarillionFan]

I can't be bothered to read all the gumpf before, but you need a visa to travel to the US now

It used to be you could just turn up, sign a waiver and walk through. They changed it about 15 months ago, so you have to apply for a visa before you leave.

I turned at the end of last year and prompty got whisked off to immigration for an hour.

Which was nice.

[fullyautomatix]

I can't be bothered to read all the gumpf before, but you need a visa to travel to the US now

It used to be you could just turn up, sign a waiver and walk through. They changed it about 15 months ago, so you have to apply for a visa before you leave.

I turned at the end of last year and prompty got whisked off to immigration for an hour.

Which was nice.

No, you do not need a visa to go the US if you are a british citizen. But you do have to fill in an online form with all your details in. This online form fill up used to be free but they have started charging 15$ now.

[MarillionFan]

No, you do not need a visa to go the US if you are a british citizen. But you do have to fill in an online form with all your details in. This online form fill up used to be free but they have started charging 15$ now.

They grilled me for an hour about a bloody online form!!!

Tossers!

[AtW]

I was only 14 and can not really remember.

If you say that to the customs officer he might as well ask whether you don't remember because that arrest was one of the many in your life or you were high that much that you lost memory

[MarkUK]

If you say that to the customs officer he might as well ask whether you don't remember because that arrest was one of the many in your life or you were high that much that you lost memory

lol yeah I guess. But if I do travel only using the online waiver will they have records of this or not? Or would it just be easier to get a ACPO form and apply for a full visa?

[VectraMan]

I don't know the details, but ClientCo have been trying to send somebody to work permanently (or indefinitely anyway) in the US, which they hoped to have done 6 months ago but she's still waiting for the Visa. Seems like a very long and complicated process.

[TimberWolf]

How often do people get the rubber glove treatment when travelling to America? I'm surprised they get away with doing something like that, at least without some fuss being extended by the piece of meat being fingered. What happens if you refuse to be raped? Come to think of it, do women get a finger up the front-bottom too?

[TimberWolf]

I don't know the details, but ClientCo have been trying to send somebody to work permanently (or indefinitely anyway) in the US, which they hoped to have done 6 months ago but she's still waiting for the Visa. Seems like a very long and complicated process.

Seems like the only place easy to get into these days is the UK, and it looks as if our borders are being opened up further, election pledge or not.