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The list of countries in the visa waiver program includes many European nations like the United Kingdom, Germany and France, as well as some U.S. allies around the world, including Australia, Israel, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.
Side note: interesting that European countries are not included in the list of allies.
Tourists? Straight to cecot
And the rest of us boycott in solidarity.
Hahahahha what a bunch of thin-skinned losers
Only a matter of time before there is a royal insult law in the USA.
Can someone ELI5 why their map of visa free countries doesn't include Canada? Canada doesn't need a visa
It's probably because entry for Canadians is specified by a different program. Even the State Department website seems to exclude Canada from the VWP.
Annexion plans?
Don't you start! :)
How is Chile the only country in the Americas in the Visa Waiver Program? (Minus French Guiana)
Perhaps 10 years ago I seriously thought that moving to USA might improve my life.
Okay so at customs and immigration? They say hand over your phone? Like I’m sorry what the actual fuck is this?
No, you apply for an ESTA weeks/months beforehand.
There is currently an optional box to provide social media info.
No doubt anything you provide is reviewed by CBP in the weeks leading up to your trip.
How the fuck they'd be able to find out if you have an account if you don't provide anything I'm not sure. Or if you don't provide them with burner email addresses.
I suspect the tech companies will be complicit.
I had assumed that data trawling being what it is, there's probably a clear record of all social media accounts without you providing anything. Hell, maybe even pre assessment by AI of your profile like the Chinese social rating based on what you've wrote, read and even lingered over without clicking on
Honestly, I suspect this is a sneaky way to get CBP access to what ever data sharing shit the social media companies have with the rest of the spooks. Simply by attempting to enter the US someone "agrees" to an automatic search of their social data.
Yea, after reading the article, this is an overall of the electronic application process that needs to happen before entry. And it'll include not just social media handles, but also email addresses. Seems reasonably easy for a "bad guy" to skirt.
UK, France, Germany, and Australia all have their own editions of the sitcom "Ghosts" (UK was the original). Trump has something against the Ghosts franchise. I'm kidding, of course; Trump isn't cool enough to have heard of Ghosts.