US to charge for ESTA
Aug 7th 2010, 4:52 am
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US to charge for ESTA
How long before this starts to go up at the same rate as the passport costs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10899968
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10899968
Aug 7th 2010, 6:05 am
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Re: US to charge for ESTA
How long before this starts to go up at the same rate as the passport costs.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10899968
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10899968
Aug 7th 2010, 7:24 am
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Re: US to charge for ESTA
H1 visa fees increase under consideration too (2.5k to 4.5k I hear)
Aug 7th 2010, 12:03 pm
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Re: US to charge for ESTA
All fees are going up. And the increase from what I've seen is quite large.
Aug 7th 2010, 12:32 pm
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Re: US to charge for ESTA
That's in line with what Australia charges I think.
Aug 7th 2010, 4:36 pm
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Re: US to charge for ESTA
Australia is a big/huge/massive rip off in almost anything and everything.
Aug 7th 2010, 6:51 pm
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Re: US to charge for ESTA
This only good thing that I can see about this is that it might help to stop kids going to the US on a whim - a psychology thing, whereby if they have to paty for it it must be official/important.
Feel free to tell me that was utter crap.
Feel free to tell me that was utter crap.
Aug 7th 2010, 7:25 pm
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Re: US to charge for ESTA
Aug 7th 2010, 7:37 pm
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Aug 9th 2010, 7:39 pm
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Re: US to charge for ESTA
They were always going to charge for it though, this not charging thing was temporary while they were rolling it all out.
