US Visa

[Deleted member 478]

If you arrive by air, you don't need one (British passport holders). But if you arrive by boat, you do.

What a hassle....

£60 application fee
£5 US specification passport photo
£20 train ticket into London including tube pass and parking at the station.
£9.50 courier fee for the return of your passport.
£1.30 per minute to phone and book an interview (approx 6 minute call)
6 weeks wait for your interview and you must arrive 30 minutes before and wait outside in the rain/sun.
Once inside, wait an hour and a half for your interview.
Wait another hour an a half for a verification interview and final visa approval.
Wait 30 minutes in the courier queue to pay for return of passport.

The only good thing is that I now have a 10 year visa and won't have to repeat the exercise again unless I loose my passport.

 

[woody001]

I have a seaman's passport, can't you get one?
I cant remember how the system works, but there's two grades i think, and it allows you to work in the country's.
Dont know enough, but iam shore someone can tell you more.

 

[AOWYN]

If it's such a problem, just remember that nobody is forcing you to go there (nor are they forced to let you in - maybe we have a lot to learn from them).

Refusing entry to people who moan is a wonderful idea.

 

[ccscott49]

Just go to the us virgins from brit virgins, get your visa in the brit Virgins, a bunch easier!!

 

[Gordonmc]

Just as daft was the need to get a US visa to transit through to Central America.
I was in the US for less than two hours for aircraft refuelling at Washington Dulles and the real irony was it was an RAF flight full of Brit troops and crabs> If I had been a tourist no visa would be needed.
Work that one out.

 

[Sybarite]

Two years ago I turned up at the airport with my British passport only to be refused admission to the plane. I had flown many times before to the States but I have a British subject's passport and apparently this time they wanted to see a visa. I pointed out that neither a British nor an Irish citizen needs one and, as indicated on my British Passport I was born in Ireland and therefore I was either one or the other. The irony was that I was only transiting there on my way to Canada.

The result was I had to change my ticket on the spot at great expense (my previous ticket to Vancouver was for £350 return).

I have not changed my passport nor acquired a visa since. I reckon that there are sufficient beautiful places elsewhere in the world to visit.

John

 

[Deleted member 478]

[ QUOTE ]
I reckon that there are sufficient beautiful places elsewhere in the world to visit.

[/ QUOTE ]I couldn't agree more.
But, I have been offered a paid berth on a delivery to the USA on which I will be able to take all the spares I have bought for Stingo. I could fly back (£500) and could ship the spares (£1000). I don't have that sort of money at the moment so am caught between a rock and a hard place.