Esta

[Andy H]

Made a bit of a cock up. I read "within 72 hours" and have only just filled my ESTA's in and we fly tomorrow at 12ish.

How long did everyones take ?

Feel sick...

[fl-veteran]

Originally Posted by Andy H

Made a bit of a cock up. I read "within 72 hours" and have only just filled my ESTA's in and we fly tomorrow at 12ish.

How long did everyones take ?

Feel sick...

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Usually immediate. I've had them take an hour or so before and I once had one take 24 hours because I made a mistake on it.

In future you should do your ESTA a minimum of 6 months out in case anything flags up.

edit: That's out of about 20 trips so probably about 10 ESTAs - the vast majority were within a couple of minutes.

Don't wait for the email - go back on the site and check the status, fingers crossed you're pleasantly surprised.

[Mikey19869]

Mine have always been within the hour.. you should be fine 🤞

[Andy H]

I just read the within 72 hours, I literally come back from the Maldives a week ago and that had to be done just before you travel so had that in my head.

Fingers crossed we get some authorisation tonight.

[Softy]

Every report for the last few months has been within an hour or so. I did 4 for friends last week and it was about 90 mins.

[Andy H]

Thanks, Mikey !

[grinner82]

Just keep checking and refreshing, I think mine took about 6 hours the first time and then I redid them as I was silly and missed off my middle names , then second ones came back within the hour. I think it can take longer but its automated so fingers crossed it does as sadly you can't Flt without one.

[Posiesmum]

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone report an immediate approval for some time. Mine took about 2-3 hours.

[Andy H]

Thanks all - fingers crossed. Feel like a right idiot !

[fl-veteran]

Oh, and welcome to the Dibb