Timeline for Can I leave the airport if I am traveling though the US from the UK?
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| May 2, 2018 at 14:56 | comment | added | reirab | @dlatikay U.S. airports don't have international transit zones. Transiting a U.S. airport requires admission to the U.S., even for international-to-international connections. This allows domestic and international flights to depart from the same gates. It generally makes life easier for domestic-to-international connections (and airport operations,) but more difficult for international-to-international connections. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 12:41 | comment | added | phoog | @dlatikay they won't be able to abandon the clearance process in any case. All passengers must clear passport control and customs, even those who are connecting to a flight to another country. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 11:27 | comment | added | Michael Hoffman | It's not an unusual mistake, in my experience. Especially among people who rarely have to get real visas. | |
| May 2, 2018 at 9:01 | comment | added | dlatikay | returning ESTAs are much faster. if OP is coming in by first-time ESTA to JFK, his mileage may vary between 30 minutes and 4+ hours from debarking to clearance completed. And I'm afraid once they entered the "Non U.S." queue they may not be able to simply abandon the clearance process when they realize its going to take too long to catch their connecting flight. but stopover with final destination in US will require full clearance in JFK anyway... | |
| May 2, 2018 at 8:49 | comment | added | David Richerby | @MichaelHoffman It would be a very unusual mistake to confuse ESTA and a visa. Almost everybody thinks that "ESTA" means "visa-free entry to the USA" (i.e., what is actually the VWP). | |
| May 1, 2018 at 20:37 | comment | added | Michael Hoffman | I assume this refers to travel authorization from the Electronic System for Travel Authorization, which the U.S. maintains is technically different from a visa. Travel authorization has been required for entry through the Visa Waiver Program since 2009. | |
| May 1, 2018 at 9:35 | comment | added | James T | Strange, Isn't pretty much everyone with a British passport, that describers the holders nationality as "British Citizen", eligible to the visa waiver programme? Unless of course they have visited the restricted countries, or have criminal convictions. | |
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| May 1, 2018 at 9:27 | history | answered | Napoletano | CC BY-SA 3.0 |