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Originally Posted by smithlane

Have only just seen the news on this and now not sure what to do. I applied for mine and OH’s in Dec last year and my 2 children’s" last month, none of which include our middle names. I didn’t hover on the ? so didn’t realise!
We fly in July so have time to reapply but then I don’t want to tempt fate as we wouldn’t have time to go down Visa route. We are flying via Dublin so will be doing immigration there, not that it should make any difference

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After a long period without a holiday in Orlando we have booked up again. Decided to be organised and get ESTA's on Saturday which were authorised in less than an hour. And now I read this thread today :-( We all have middle names, and no I did not include them on the ESTA.

I've already decided to re-apply for the ESTA's with our middle names included but the feel the ESTA website is very unclear on this matter.

The "First (Given) Name" field implys just that in a singular fashion. It would be more helpful if it was labelled "First Names" to at least give us a chance to realise they are asking for more than our first name!

It's not surprising that people miss out the help popup as... well we all assume we know what our first name is! Oh well, I'll splash out another £50 to correct the problem

Anyhow, annoying and frustrating but as I've applied for them this weekend I feel we need to re-apply. If I'd applied for them before the change was made I'd probably feel different.