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- 5timuli
OK, firstly, I have a flight booked to the US for 3rd June. I've never been before and am a bit baffled by the new Visa requirements, and whether I need one to enter the country for vacation purposes. I've heard about the Visa Waiver Program but trying to make sense of the information online is a bit of a headfuck. Has anyone been recently and can give me any information?
Secondly, I'll be flying back with someone on the 15th June (if all goes well). She's coming to stay until the end of August or longer (10 weeks or more). Does anyone know if there's a maximum time period someone can stay over here classed as a vacation? If she decided to stay longer is it possible to apply for a working Visa from within the UK? Again, I've been looking online but the information's spread over several pages and websites and I can't find a definitive guide that explains it all in simple terms. I feel a headache coming on, can anyone help?
- ********0
You dont need a visa for a short trip... At least you didn't in 2003.
Just photo ID - ie - new passport.
- Baskerville0
The visa waiver program, I"m pretty sure only consists of filling a piece of paper on the plane before you land. You have to tell them that you have no criminal record, or aren't mental or are not a nazi war criminal.
Then they let you in. But last time I went I was freaked out by the ultra tight airport security. You may be shocked by how over the top it is.
Everyone has to have their photo taken when they go through airport security in the US and have their fingerprints taken. They must have a huge database of fingerprints and photos – millions.
scary.
Plus the airport I landed at had a framed picture of George W Bush on the wall at passport control.
Reminded of those dictatorships where everyone has a painting of the leader in their houses and shops.
- chossy0
get photo taken (no smiling) shave ass, go to america buy gun.
Once a friend went to America...Florida I think and we told him he had to shave his ass to get through customs as you could be carrying germs, He shaved his ass ha ha poor guy.
- rasko40
visa waiver: fill in a little poorly designed card on the plane, dont crack any jokes with the security cos they are absolute cunts.
your friend will have 90 days stay no problem.
easy
- rasko40
oh yeah the form will ask you the address where you will be staying during your stay, dont fret it, just make something up, well, thats what I do
- acescence0
you do need a newer, machine-readable passport for visa waiver program
- rasko40
since when?
- acescence0
Starting October 26, 2004, visa waiver travelers from ALL 27 Visa Waiver Program countries must present a machine-readable passport at the U.S. port of entry to enter the U.S. without a visa, otherwise a U.S. visa is required.
- rasko40
oh well I think all Uk passports are machine readable nowadays, I thought you were talking about those new chip versions they keep droning on about
- 5timuli0
Nice one. It says your passport should be machine readable and have a printed photograph, not glued or laminated. I've got one so I'm OK. Trust the UK/US to call it Visa waivering, couldn't they just call it a landing card like the Canadians?
90 days sounds like plenty time, now I need to work out if she can apply for a working Visa when she's here. I read on one site that you can't and on another site that you could so I don't know which to trust.
- chossy0
You have to shave your ass 5timuli before you go to America cause you could carry germs or whatever.
- 5timuli0
My ass is always smooth Chossy, you've seen it through your telescope :P
- Baskerville0
telescope? is that what they're calling it these days?
- chossy0
it's normally blurred, I can't get the shutter speed up fast enough.
- paraselene0
5timmers she can stay for 90 days max. she can't apply for a work permit here, the company she wants a job with has to do the work permit application while she is back in america. then, once she's got the permit, she has to apply for a visa from america before she can come back. it's a pain in the ass. also, when she arrives she has to have proof of being able to support herself for those 90 days and don't let her say, 'oh i'll be staying with my boyfriend' cos then they get worried that she'll get hitched and deny her entry. if she's coming back after the 90 days she has originally is up, she'll have to have a work permit or a fiancee visa otherwise they'll think it's suspicious that she's been for 90 days and is then turning around and coming back again and they'll deny her entry for that, too.
- chossy0
and she also has to shave her ass end.
- paraselene0
if there is hair to be shorn on the ass end of the woman, you should probably stick to scottish birds.
and mail me, joe, if you have any other questions...
- rasko40
and when she says 'any other questions' she actually means on any subject at all ,be it political, religious, mathematics, quantum physics - she knows everything remember.
- chossy0
!! :/ that was crap paraselene.
I'm marking your comedy card with a black star, a black star paraselene don't let this happen again.
- ribit0
it's called visa waiver program 'cos you dont need a visa. If you are a jounalist tho dont say you are a journalist (they need visas if covering news during their visit).
US immigration has to be the worst...lots of shouting going on because nobody has the sense to deign a decent system of signs... (I'm sure I saw one done in Microsoft word art...you know stretched chrome with bevels and shadows... (compare immigration in Germany (dead quiet, clear directions) with any US airport... lots of shouting: "I need you people to line up over here", "aliens over here, citizens over here" etc...