ESTA VISA, TWO PARALLEL APPLICATIONS? Third-party providers?

In my opinion, this page is already bordering on fraud. They don’t do anything except to enter your data into the official form (which you can do just as well), ask for more, and so they don’t even artificially delay this process for a few days, they want more money…

The information on their website is sometimes very misleading:

ESTA applications are usually approved after 3 days. If you submit an express request, the ESTA application will be approved on average after 60 minutes.

This may be true, but that these details relate to their own processing times and not to those of CBP, will of course be concealed.

But you also find the truth below:

The difference between regular requests and requests for urgent action is that VisaAntrag.de will process urgent requests faster; processing of applications is always started within 24 hours, usually within 10 minutes. Even at night, on weekends and on holidays. In this case, a test for frequently occurring filling errors is first carried out. Your application will then be forwarded to the U.S. Border Protection Authority, which will re-examine the application and examine whether you could pose a security risk. If no reason for rejection is found, the ESTA will be executed on average after 60 minutes. You will then receive a confirmation of the issue by email and SMS.

So serious looks different…

If the company was abroad, I would recommend a chargeback so that you can get your money back. Your bank or Paypal support should be easily convinced that you were deceived. However, this is a company from the Netherlands with a location in Berlin, which would then be guaranteed to come with debt collection.

So I would actually write the money as an apprentice. However, there is absolutely no objection to making a criminal complaint. Should the prosecution deal with this…

§ 263 StGB

(1) Whoever, in the intention of providing himself or a third party with an illegal asset advantage, damages the property of another by inciting or maintaining an error by pre-reflection of false or by disfiguring or suppressing true facts, is punished with imprisonment for up to five years or with a fine.

(2) The attempt is punishable.

(3) In particularly serious cases, the penalty is imprisonment from six months to ten years. A particularly serious case is usually present when the perpetrator

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– to bring about a loss of wealth to a great extent or to act in the intention of bringing a large number of people into the risk of loss of assets by the continued pursuit of fraud;

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And let me guess you found this third-party through an ad in a search engine? That’s what they do, so they’re up in the result list as the official application page.