What do you need to enter the USA?
Do you have to apply for a visa before starting a package holiday or is it enough to simply take a passport with you and do it on site?
Do you have to apply for a visa before starting a package holiday or is it enough to simply take a passport with you and do it on site?
ESTA (if authorized) under https://esta.cbp.dhsgov/ apply, otherwise apply for a B2 visa in time (via a US embassy).
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You have to worry about it before, otherwise you don't come to the USA – not even as a transit traveling person who only has an intermediate landing there. You don't even get into the plane because they don't even take you.
You can check if you are entitled to ESTA. With German passport one is most often, except one has to answer one of the questions in the form so that they reject it.
If your ESTA application is rejected or you are not entitled to use the ESTA procedure (eg due to incorrect double state citizenship, previous trip to Cuba,…), you need a visa, which is correspondingly more expensive and takes longer.
A valid passport and an ESTA or a B-1/2 visa. Depending on what you qualify for.
Yeah, that has to be done. It always happens that ESTA is not approved and that visas are not issued (currently). You risk yourself.
No, you can't do anything on site and there's nothing going on. You can't even climb a plane in the direction of the USA without leaving. You stay on the ground.