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The thing is, my behaviour upon conviction was medically related. The ESTA online form arrived at through a link from the reputable 'Martin Lewis Money Expert' website mentions only declaration of TWO convictions which result in a prison sentence of 5 years or more in total OR one involving the mysterious moral turpitude which, it has been determined, does not fall under this category. (I did 60 hours community service and fined £60. I am a professional man.) When I clicked on the 'yes' option to having a criminal record, it flagged up a dialogue box asking "do you really want to answer YES to this question", so prompting my posting on to Answerbank. I left the form incomplete and did not submit it. It seems cruel to be banned from a country I want to go back to. Visited New York twice pre-9/11. Visited Hawaii twice, and in fact got married there, again, pre-9/11.