Just in case you didn’t see this in the news and you wanted to go to OpenWorld:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/03/us_visa_scheme/
It would be a shame to get there and be refused entry! š
Cheers
Tim…
US imposes 72 hour pre-reg for Visa waiver travellers…
I have to ask…
… how many people would decide to fly to the states at only 3 days notice?
I can think of a couple, but not many!
These past couple of years they’ve really been tightening up the re-entry requirements for US citizens, too. So when they started doing that, the time period to get a passport went up to months.
When I went on a cruise to Mexico, I thought I had applied in plenty of time to get the whole family passports (it took weeks to even get an appointment). They arrived well after our trip.
At that time, you needed a passport to re-enter the country by plane, but not by ship or car (the rules changed several times, confusing everyone). So why did cruise ships require passports? Because if you got sick or injured, you theoretically wouldn’t be able to be flown to the US via rescue helicopter.
What wound up happening is border guards would give a stern lecture to citizens arriving without a passport.
Meanwhile, the coyote (people smuggling) business thrives, narcoterrorists take over entire towns in Mexico…
ugh. more madness. You can imagine the bureaucrats playing one upmanship on the requirement.
“This visa waiver program seems suspect. Let’s make everyone register before they fly”
“Yes … but before they even get to the airport!”
“A day before!”
“No, two days before”
“Three!”
Thus are great government careers built.
“there will also be concerns that the immigration database will be a potential goldmine for ID thieves.”
They should use Oracle. . . “Can’t break in”!!!!