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ESTA applications on "ESTAUK" site

juicyjenny
juicyjenny Posts: 3 Newbie
in Overseas holidays & travel planning
I google the Esta to apply for my Visa Waiver and came up with an
ESTAUK site. This looked to the novice a pukka site however after completing all the details including the payment details of $45 and having it failed I got suspicious.

Does anyone know if this is a genuine site and if not how I would report the details if not - I'm concerned that they could have all my details!!!!!

I've since found the correct site and it was very straight forward.

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  • alanrowell
    alanrowell Posts: 5,367 Forumite
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    The ESTA is free, therefore any website asking for money is not an official website.

    Try https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/ or http://www.usembassy.org.uk/cons_new/visa/niv/esta.html or http://www.visitusa.org.uk/visitors/esta.aspx or http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/id_visa/esta/

    BTW how are you getting a paid for service when you search for "esta". The 4 I've posted are the first 4 results I get from Google when I use "esta" as the search argument
  • Diamond_Olly
    Diamond_Olly Posts: 341 Forumite
    Who would you report it to? I'm sure the US Authorities are aware of these sites already.
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  • pennylane99
    pennylane99 Posts: 5,783 Forumite
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    alanrowell wrote: »
    BTW how are you getting a paid for service when you search for "esta". The 4 I've posted are the first 4 results I get from Google when I use "esta" as the search argument

    I get sponsored links first, which charge for the service
  • alanrowell
    alanrowell Posts: 5,367 Forumite
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    Another reason for using Firefox with it's built in adblocker
  • dzug1
    dzug1 Posts: 13,535 Forumite
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    juicyjenny wrote: »
    I google the Esta to apply for my Visa Waiver and came up with an
    ESTAUK site. This looked to the novice a pukka site however after completing all the details including the payment details of $45 and having it failed I got suspicious.

    Does anyone know if this is a genuine site and if not how I would report the details if not - I'm concerned that they could have all my details!!!!!

    I've since found the correct site and it was very straight forward.


    It's probably a genuine site in the sense of if you use it you will get your ESTA. If it works....

    But it is charging you for something you can get for free.
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