{"id":734,"date":"2016-06-28T23:37:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T03:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=734"},"modified":"2016-06-28T23:37:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T03:37:11","slug":"us-entry-requirements-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/us-entry-requirements-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"US Entry requirements updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The US has updated entry processing through ESTA (the <a href=\"https:\/\/esta.cbp.dhs.gov\/esta\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>online visa system<\/strong><\/a> for countries using the Visa Waiver Program).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The system now reflects the designation of Somalia, Libya and Yemen as countries of concern, a change made under the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In addition to the country-specific travel restrictions, a request for ESTA applicants&#8217; Global Entry Program Numbers was also added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Visa Waiver Program allows foreign nationals from designated countries to enter the United States for business or tourism for up to 90 days without the need to obtain a B-1\/B-2 visitor visa from a U.S. consulate.\u00a0VWP travellers must register and obtain approval to travel from the ESTA and carry an e-passport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has updated entry processing through ESTA (the online visa system for countries using&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[510,509,68,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-item","8":"tag-entry-requirements","9":"tag-esta","10":"tag-us","11":"tag-visa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}