The program for granting an automatic 24-hour transit visa to people flying with connecting flights in the US from one International Location to another apparently no longer exists. It did a few years ago, but it doesn’t any more.
If you are from:
Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium Brunei, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom
You have nothing to worry about.
If however, you are traveling with your Brazilian wife who only just applied for a Visa 9 months ago (Which means she doesn’t have a visa yet) and you (for example) want to fly from Panama with a 3 hour layover in Atlanta before you continue on to Amsterdam . . . well you’re just shit out of luck.
It doesn’t matter if you specifically ask the airline about this very issue on the phone when you purchase the tickets and they tell you you’re fine, they will not let your wife get on the plane if you do not go to the embassy and get a visa.
In a scenario like the one above, where you purchased your tickets and arrived at the airport – lets say on a Sunday, you’re options will be to deal with the US visa process (which could take forever) or to just find another rout that does not include the United Police States Of America.
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And with the asswipe in power in Canada, it’s not getting much better here. Expect to be implanted like cattle with RFID chips if we don’t protest very loudly.
heh, I read a great article about the visa requirements for journalists entering the us recently, getting a touch out of hand really:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1231089,00.html
horrendous.
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“United Police States Of America”. That about sums up what the US is turning into. What a shame.