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paranoidrobot
All this "Oh, no, you're not applying for a visa, you're applying for authority to travel" is such bullshit.

It's just a Visa in a trenchcoat.

ksec
>The apps — for iPhone and Android — boast of being quicker, with 10-minute processing times

10 min is not quick in modern world. Especially when previously it was 0.

May be the whole world government could just make a single Visa application that they all agree on and just let me pay automatically when I buy a plane ticket.

Charge me 50% more than what you are charging now. ( around $6? ) and get rid of the hassle.

Instead they are introducing MORE bureaucracy.

jacobp100
It’ll take a lot longer in the EU. You need fingerprints taken there
paulb73
When I last travelled to the USA from the UK, it took weeks to get the ESTA. Might be quicker now, but 10 minutes sounds like lightning to me!
dagw
Some people seem to get their application flagged for manual review, and that can take a long time. Otherwise it takes less than 20-30 minutes to get a reply in my experience.
Havoc
>Charge me 50% more than what you are charging now. ( around $6? ) and get rid of the hassle.

The cost is completely notional & arbitrary with these visa waivers. Doubling it doesn't make it faster/better somehow.

>Especially when previously it was 0.

As the article stated...blame the country that kicked off this trend. It's reciprocal to the US ESTA.

shubb
The UK introduced this to mirror / sync with the EU ETIAS evisa system introduced recently, which in turn mirrors the US ESTA eVisa. They all cost about the same.

It's interesting how UK stories are reported.