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New entry conditions to US?

  • 01-06-2007 9:54am
    #1
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭


    I was talking to my dad the other day, and he mentioned something about new regulations for heading to the states. I hadn't heard a thing, but since I heading that way in July, I thought I'd best look into it.

    Has anyone heard anything about it at all? I'll be passing through Atlanta and then heading straight to Peru, but on the way back I'll be overnighting in New York. Am I going to need any sort of Visa or other paperwork to stay?


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  • #2
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,859 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    No. If there was any sort of new regulations other than those introduced a couple of years ago that mean you get fingerprinted and photographed on the way in, it would have been all over the media. If that doesn't satisfy you, I was there in March and nothing had changed from my previous visit.

    As long as you have a machine readable passport (highly unlikely that you don't) and it is in date for at least 6 months from your return date, you will be fine.

    edited to update my stupid bracket sentence.


  • #3
    jjbrien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭jjbrien


    humanji wrote:
    I was talking to my dad the other day, and he mentioned something about new regulations for heading to the states. I hadn't heard a thing, but since I heading that way in July, I thought I'd best look into it.

    Has anyone heard anything about it at all? I'll be passing through Atlanta and then heading straight to Peru, but on the way back I'll be overnighting in New York. Am I going to need any sort of Visa or other paperwork to stay?

    Do you have a machine readable passport? If you have you will be fine. Its still the visa waiver programme. You will have to give a finger print scan of each index finger along and they will take a photo of you. But apart from that its the same as before.


  • #4
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    OK, showing my ignorance (nothing new there!), by machine readable, do you mean the new fangled biometric thingys?


  • #5
    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    And just make sure on the way home you scan your passport and fingerprints
    at the self-service machines in the departure lounge. I've noticed the check-in
    staff aren't the best at telling people to do so before boarding.


  • #6
    BuffyBot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    Machine readable passport:

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/Mrp_image.gif

    One is has those <<<<SMITH J etc things, you'll be fine.


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  • #7
    humanji
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    Ah grand. I've one of them! :D


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