ESTA query

[OllyM]

Yep exactly. Myself and colleagues have had a bit of a laugh and friendly chat with the officials there. The contrast is night and day.

I prefer flying into Newark because it only takes 20 minutes to get home from there vs an hour or two to get home from JFK but I definitely wouldn't say CBP are any friendlier there.

Last time I flew into Newark it took over an hour to get through the US Citizen/Permanent Resident line (and the officer didn't say a word to me). The queue for visitors was absolutely massive so they must have been waiting for hours.

 

[Jean-F]

I feel that you’re probably right, and I hope you are, but that’s why I said in my post # 4, that I’d happily spend a day at Grosvenor Square, in the hope that I got something official on U.S. embassy paper, saying Jean-Francois can enter the U.S., or in this case, my wife’s sister-in-law can.

Update;
I submitted a query to CBP, (as my brother-in-law), giving his email address, “was his wife’s ESTA application cool, or no?”
In the meantime, my wife went on the ESTA site, submitting both her brother and sister-in-law’s application numbers, they both came back as Approved.
The next day, she went into her brother’s email account, (he was away for the weekend), there was an email from CBP, saying if you’ve paid for, and submitted an application, then realise that you may have made an error, you must submit a new application, so she’ll tell her sister-in-law on Monday, and it will all start over.
I just have the feeling that someone in TSA will be thinking, “Jeez, this broad really wants to come to the U.S.”

 

[Joeyuk]

You have to submit a new one if you make any errors. I made an error on mine last year which was approved but just did a new one with the right info. Had no problems at immigration.

 

[Jean-F]

You have to submit a new one if you make any errors. I made an error on mine last year which was approved but just did a new one with the right info. Had no problems at immigration.

Thanks Joey, thank Christ I have a multiple entry visa in my passport.

 

[Jean-F]

Sorry to rehash this, but my wife, in possession of her brother’s wife’s passport, credit card, and all necessary bits and pieces, went online today to re-apply for her sister-in-law’s ESTA.
I was filling in the form, she was reading out what I asked for.
When it came to SIL’s parents, I knew their names, and put in Father, Bill Bloggs, Mother Jean Bloggs.
Sharp intake of breath from my wife, and curse word description of me.
“What?” I said.
“SIL’s mum’s maiden name was Jones, not Bloggs”, she said.
“Were Bill and Jean married when SIL was born?”, “Yes, they were.”
“Then SIL’s mother’s family’s name was Bloggs.”
“When I applied for mine, I put my mum’s maiden name as her family name, and mine was approved”, she said.
Oh, FFS! I give up, please God it all works out, or somehow it’ll be down to me.