USA travel Visa (ETSA) group/individual

andrew71

I'm about to apply for travel visa for a group of us going to USA (Florida) the next few months.
I've gone to the homeland (American) website to apply and there's choice of individual application or group.
There's 7 of us going in total. Three in one family and four in the other family. There's just two family names.
Do I apply for each person individually and pay separately or as a group? Both families live separately. Or does it matter how the visas are applied for?

izzitme

Everybody needs their own ESTA, there is no such thing as a group ESTA.


The group is just to enable you to bunch them all together & make one payment. This avoids excessive foreign transaction fees if you don't have an overseas friendly payment card.

headpin

As izzitime says, the group application is purely for payment ease. Every person needs an individual ESTA. Make sure that you click on the question mark to ensure you know exactly the information to be inserted. In particular make sure that where necessary all information mirrors exactly what is shown in the passport, especially by inserting all forenames that are shown.

Also make sure that you are definitely on the official site. There are many scam sites that try to look official. This is the official site:

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/international-visitors/esta

It is $14 per person for an ESTA. If you are asked for any more then you are likely not in the official site. The scam sites will charge significantly more.