Holiday in USA?
Dec 20, 2020, 4:47 pm
#1
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Holiday in USA?
Calling immigration experts:
We are currently in Barbados, British citizens.
After spending 14 days here, can we head over to the USA under an esta and spend a month or two out there?
We are currently in Barbados, British citizens.
After spending 14 days here, can we head over to the USA under an esta and spend a month or two out there?
Dec 20, 2020, 4:57 pm
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Dec 20, 2020, 5:09 pm
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Dec 20, 2020, 5:22 pm
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Dec 20, 2020, 5:25 pm
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I think it's a misphrase by bmj1 ; he possibly tried to mean that any foreigner (non-US citizen/resident ) who has been in the UK could not travel to the USA.
Dec 20, 2020, 11:52 pm
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The USA is a big place, make sure you choose your destination carefully. I can't imagine preferring to be in the USA over UK based on headlines. Does your trip insurance cover Covid related treatments? Someone in Seattle got a $1,000,000 bill before insurance.
Dec 21, 2020, 5:34 am
#12
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I think that what you are suggesting is doable, question is do you really want to?
The US is really divided into a few different zones at the moment :
1. places that have various levels of restrictions that are taken seriously (eg Seattle, no indoor dining, no museums, not much in the line of tourist activities : cities are dead) and three are low Covid levels
2. places with no to few restrictions and raging Covid levels. If you get sick minimal hospital services will be available to you and keep in mind even one night in a hospital is likely to cost you over $10,000 minimum.
Also keep in mind weather - you'll have to stay in the southern 3rd of the country to avoid snow.
Why not stay in Barbados or island hop somewhere else in the Caribbean with low Covid and great weather. I'm in Turks and Caicos, weather is perfect, island is quiet. Lovely place to be right now.
Ray
The US is really divided into a few different zones at the moment :
1. places that have various levels of restrictions that are taken seriously (eg Seattle, no indoor dining, no museums, not much in the line of tourist activities : cities are dead) and three are low Covid levels
2. places with no to few restrictions and raging Covid levels. If you get sick minimal hospital services will be available to you and keep in mind even one night in a hospital is likely to cost you over $10,000 minimum.
Also keep in mind weather - you'll have to stay in the southern 3rd of the country to avoid snow.
Why not stay in Barbados or island hop somewhere else in the Caribbean with low Covid and great weather. I'm in Turks and Caicos, weather is perfect, island is quiet. Lovely place to be right now.
Ray
Dec 21, 2020, 6:08 am
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Dec 21, 2020, 6:45 am
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A friend and his wife are currently working on a business launch in the USA. They are both British. For some reason, they ended up with the wrong visa type. So every few months they have to go out of the USA to somewhere quite horrible, like Barbados, for 2 weeks, and then they are allowed back in. It has not been an issue, so far.
Dec 21, 2020, 9:51 am
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If you can get a Covid test per their rules, Hawaii would be a pretty safe place right now. Fly via DFW and you can get an on airport approved rapid test. Not everything is open but enough is to make it fun, and it has one of the lowest Covid rates anywhere,
Last edited by Furby; Dec 21, 2020 at 10:30 am