Electronic System for Travel Authorization

want to read them.

I was looking at that for the London airport because I was kind of have you guys know, I was like worried about like the visa thingy or the ETSA or whatever it's called.

So I was reading about like, you know, how to sleep at the London airport, which by the way, there's not a lot of good advice out there.

They're really weird and strict about sleeping at the London airport.

It's the second ban there that applies to our case based on the time period.

And so that is requiring either an I-94W form that's not in the record, or an ESTA form that's not in the record.

The page prior to that is JA16, the Visa Waiver Removal Checklist.

So the government seems to have checked off there that the I-94W form is in the record.

Furthermore, the notice of intent to remove and the actual removal order alleged that Thiago himself executed the waiver.

So the notice of intent, which is on page three of the administrative record, states you signed and agreed to the conditions on the I-94W.

The removal order similarly states that it was established by clear and convincing evidence and reads in relevant part, you executed the I-94W non-immigrant visa waiver or the ESTA form.

So it appears that the government has contended throughout in these very, very abbreviated proceedings before the administrative agency.

So what kind of friction or interaction is that with the U.S. government?

So filling out an online form before you want to travel to the United States, right, the ESTA application, or if you've filled it out previously and, you know, you still have validity left off on that, and then coming to the United States, presenting yourself at a border.

And as we said before, of course, a person can be denied access at a border as well too, right? But I would say, John, you know, the initial ESTA eligibility slash approval is the bigger threat, right? You know, more people are going to be denied ESTA than approved ESTA and then run into trouble when they actually present themselves at the

border.

In other words, you know, what the ESTA thing really does, the issue of the essence is rebuts the presumption of immigrant intent in general, right?

What do you mean by that?

Well, what I mean is that, you know, you've already gone through the ESTA process.

OK, you've already effectively been cleared by the United States to go to the United States.

Chile is the only Latin American country in the visa waiver program.

Chileans enter with an ESTA, the Electronic System for Travel Authorization.

instead of queuing for a visa interview.

Then come three blocks.

Ireland has gaps of its own.

It brings no Mercosur settlement, no Gulf access, no APEC business travel card and no visa-free entry to Russia or China.

Chile covers the Mercosur and Asia-Pacific gaps and adds ESTA entry to the United States.

In return, Ireland supplies the European Union and the United Kingdom.

happened to me when I got my American one.

Yeah, you didn't go to ETSA, so yeah, all right.

I

did, but then I got a pop-up and I just got conned.

Hopefully I can then get extremely good at stand-up and go to America and try and crack it over there.

But my God, it's one big blow that I received, like that happened to me, is that in 2025 they changed the question on the ESTA application, which is the Visa Waiver Program in Ireland.

They changed the question... about criminal history on that too it used to be have you ever been uh arrested for an incident where someone was hurt or there was property damage the question was something like that and now since 2025 it's been changed to have you ever been arrested for any reason and once you tick yes on that you're gone no more visa waiver for you so that system is gone for me now because of that silly decision i made uh whereas before i would have been able to tick no i haven't been arrested for those because nobody got hurt or or no property got damaged but yeah just an update for you guys that that whole process is coming to an end and uh Yeah, I just want to get really good at stand-up now because you have to have extraordinary ability to get a visa to do stand-up in the US.

So I want to work towards that and get back there.

The reason being that hordes of passengers had not got the recently introduced UK ETA electronic travel authorisation required to enter the country and so were being refused boarding.

I saw a similar issue firsthand when I checked in for a Queen Mary II transatlantic last month, where many people from the UK and other European countries were being asked to prove that they had applied for and got the United States ESTA that's required to enter.

Now, many people hadn't got it and were scrambling to see if they could get it online before the ship boarded.

People were angry as they argued that Cunard hadn't made it clear nor told them they required it.

We are not taxpayer funded.

We're not taxpayer funded, but we are funded by a portion of the ESTA fees that international visitors from visa waiver countries pay to come to the U.S. And we get a portion of those fees.

We do not unlock those fees, though, until we raise private dollars.

So we have to raise a lot of private money.

And then through that, we're able to unlock matching funds.

from the ESTA fees.

What ended up happening is our budget was cut by 80% and we're trying to get some of those monies back.

Thankfully, we had a healthy reserve from the post pandemic time and we got a restoration fund and we were able to have some dollars put aside for a rainy day.