Has Anyone Applied For An Esta Lately?

[Tilly2]

Have you recently applied for an ESTA to travel to the USA? I applied for ours today and am not sure what the ESTA document actually looks like. I have the authorization approved papers, which I have printed but is there more to come from the US Customs and Border control?

[stob]

Hi Tilly2
This may be of help http://www.estaform.co.uk/need-print-esta-form.html

[Tilly2]

Thank you very much, Stob. That is really helpful.

[rockyracoon]

Nope. From memory, the printout that you did yourself is the only bit of paperwork that you will get.

[Islay]

As Rocky says, also I have never had the print out checked as it is all available for them to see on their computers at immigration.

[Tilly2]

Thanks, Rocky.

I haven't yet received a verification email yet but I do have a piece of paper that says, at the bottom,....Have a nice trip. Welcome to the United States.

[Tilly2]

Thanks, Islay. I just feel more comfortable with a piece of paper. :-)

[Islay]

Its not instant, when I did it last year it took about 48hours to come through, go back in after 48hours using your reference and you should see it then xx

[angie55]

You don't get an email to say it's been approved. You just have to log in to your account and it will say approved...........hopefully. That's what I did a couple of weeks ago.

[Tilly2]

Thanks, Islay, I will.

[Tilly2]

Angie, on the link supplied by Stob it says that you might want to print off the confirmation email. So, you don't actually get an email from Homeland Security?

[Tilly2]

'It is therefore judicious to carefully keep this email and your reference number. Ensure you keep it in a safe place after printing it.'

[angie55]

I didn't when we applied. Also looked back to previous applications and didn't get email notification then either. Just logged back in and saw the application had been approved. Also never take a print with us, but do have a note of the ESTA numbers.

[Tilly2]

Thanks, Angie. I have made a note of the numbers and put that inside the passports. I also had to apply for a Canadian ETA. The two systems are very different. I've done a lot of form filling today! :-)

[melv16]

Will you get through quarantine, Tilly :-)

[Tilly2]

Only if I have my teeth filed, Melv. Otherwise, no.

[DTCwordfan]

remember to take the shots, including the bovine and ovine ones.....xx

[Tilly2]

Shots? Nobody said anything about shots!

[DTCwordfan]

An American weighing 16 or 17 stone plus, usually of female origin, with a syringe in hand.....NO way.....

[jno]

I always print mine out and take it but they say you don't need to, and nobody's ever asked for it. The only hiccup I've had was when I got an email mid-trip saying they'd determined that I didn't have a machine readable passport, so my ESTA was now invalid.

All nonsense, my passport was fine and I'd just been to the US with it. And I was about to go there again a week later. A very panicky couple of days, before they emailed to say "as you were, we've changed our minds"