View Full Version : Green Visa Waiver Form No Longer Required at PHL
Dads_Taxi
29-03-2010, 04:26
Flew into Philadelphia yesterday with US Airways and was pleased to find that the green visa waiver forms were not required. ESTA has arrived!
steph_goodrum
29-03-2010, 07:26
Not at Orlando yet though unless its happened in the last week.
Katys Grandad
29-03-2010, 11:44
Interesting! May I ask whether the forms were handed out at check-in/on the flight and then it turned out they weren't actually required or was it a case of the airline being aware of the situation and not even distributing them?
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Dads_Taxi
Flew into Philadelphia yesterday with US Airways and was pleased to find that the green visa waiver forms were not required. ESTA has arrived!
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Fantastic! And about time too!
Off to MCO in May so hopefully they will have followed suit by then.
For those who renew their US drivers licenses it is necessary to produce the I94W (green slip)or a visa of some description to get a license renewed.
Is there a different stamp in the passport now or just the regular oval one?
The good news is that car and drivers license costs look set to go down a little fairly soon. There is a bill going though the senate at the moment.
Dads_Taxi
29-03-2010, 18:28
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Katys Grandad
Interesting! May I ask whether the forms were handed out at check-in/on the flight and then it turned out they weren't actually required or was it a case of the airline being aware of the situation and not even distributing them?
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The latter, I asked about 30 minutes before we landed and was told they were no longer required.
Katys Grandad
29-03-2010, 18:32
Thanks.
Does anyone know if the visa waiver forms are still required when travelling into Orlando or Charlotte? Various family members headed there first week of May...
Still needed into Orlando
Lesley S
23-04-2010, 01:33
Still needed in Charlotte four weeks ago. We were handed ours at Gatwick Airport.
Robert5988
23-04-2010, 02:03
I suspect it is a case of the immigration computer terminals at some airports being able to access the National computer database and other airports unable to have that facility yet.
Thanks all....seems like we've have to do the paperwork at least one more time [V]
Katys Grandad
30-04-2010, 00:34
I flew transatlantic yesterday and happened to speak to an official from US Airways who noticed me filling in my waiver form in the BA Lounge at Manchester. He told me that this is a US Airways trial being conducted on the MAN-PHL service so it's not across the board at PHL nor, as far as he was aware, anywhere else in the US or any other airline.
The bad news is that he told me that the trial wasn't going well, mainly because they are having big problems with large numbers of passengers who still aren't completing ESTA in advance.