US Travel Query

philtaylor

I have got the standard Irish passport with a couple of years left till it expires, but do I need one of those fancy new machine readable ones to get into to the US now or will the standard one suffice. I am slightly confused, getting conflicting answers. Anyone know?

Einstein

nope.
simple as. I've family in the states, travel couple times a year and my passport is 9 years old.

Ruu_Old

As long as you have one like below, you are fine. Machine readable ones are a good few years old now at this stage.

philtaylor

Cheers your both stars don't need to fork out 100 euro now. Its a round on me then at the next boards event.

Einstein

*me twinkles*

Naked Lepper

on my irish passport which doesnt expire for 5 years, the corners for about 1 or 2 milemeters are starting to curl up, do you think that immigration will give me hassle for this.. aer lingus check in bird mentioned it before when heading to holland
wud have liked to have kept it as i have numerous us immigration stamps and a us working visa on it, among other stamps.. should i get it replaced before i travel to the usa this august?

Random

if in doubt and it's been mentioned to you at check in before then i'd replace it. Better safe than sorry.
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Ponster

Naked Lepper wrote: »

wud have liked to have kept it as i have numerous us immigration stamps and a us working visa on it, among other stamps.. should i get it replaced before i travel to the usa this august?

You'll get to keep your old passport anyhows.

Snaggerman

Had the same query as the OP myself and just to clarify it for anyone else see:

http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/travel/id_visa/business_pleasure/vwp/vwp_timeline.ctt/vwp_timeline.pdf

That should clear up any confusion