Urgent advise needed please,
Thank you all in advance, I really need some urgent advice guys, a couple month back I have applied for ESTA to US and it was approved, then I booked my flight which is due next week. So two days ago, while doing my final pre flight check, I reviewed my esta approval form and there was list of countries that I traveled that I didn't tick yes in my initial form, so then I filled out a new esta after few mintues is says NOT authorised, they want me to go throught visitor Visa, I thought Aussie passport don't need visa to US and Canada.
I am really gutted and don't wanna lose my qantas ticket which I got it for good sale price.
What should I do please ?
Esta isn't technically a visa, hence you don't need a visa to go there if you have an Australian passport. A visa normally requires you to lodge more information and a longer wait time to be approved,while an esta is usually instant-a few days.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/tourism-…
You can try applying for an interview waiver? You could potentially get it within 4 days. However:
"The wait time estimate does not account for the time required for a consular officer to adjudicate the application nor mailing time of passports or other documents"
It's better you know now that you're not going, as opposed to getting there, getting kicked out and black listed.