Anonymous
12/02/2025 10:43
Subject: ETA for travel to London - needed or a scam
The ETA has been in place for nearly a year at this point, I applied for mine last December for January travel.
Just make sure you go to the official site. There are scam services that will charge a fee to do the application, which is totally unnecessary since it is a 5 minute process at most.
Just make sure you go to the official site. There are scam services that will charge a fee to do the application, which is totally unnecessary since it is a 5 minute process at most.
Anonymous
12/02/2025 10:10
Subject: ETA for travel to London - needed or a scam
Have you not been reading the news for the past year?! It is not a scam in the least. Maybe you should go to EPCOT instead.
Anonymous
12/02/2025 09:47
Subject: ETA for travel to London - needed or a scam
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The ETIAS for the EU will also come online in about a year.
https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/about-etias/what-is-etias
Also I think the US just announced it will charge visitors a similar fee.
The US has charged a visa waiver fee for many years, the system is called ESTA, it's $40/person.
https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta
Original fee started in 2010 and was $14 then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_System_for_Travel_Authorization
Anonymous
12/02/2025 09:46
Subject: ETA for travel to London - needed or a scam
yes recently went to england $10 - Wow I just checked New Zealand - $75! yikes.
Anonymous
12/02/2025 09:45
Subject: ETA for travel to London - needed or a scam
Anonymous wrote:The ETIAS for the EU will also come online in about a year.
https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/about-etias/what-is-etias
Also I think the US just announced it will charge visitors a similar fee.
The US has charged a visa waiver fee for many years, the system is called ESTA, it's $40/person.
https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta
Anonymous
12/02/2025 09:43
Subject: ETA for travel to London - needed or a scam
The ETIAS for the EU will also come online in about a year.
https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/about-etias/what-is-etias
Also I think the US just announced it will charge visitors a similar fee.
https://travel-europe.europa.eu/etias/about-etias/what-is-etias
Also I think the US just announced it will charge visitors a similar fee.
Anonymous
12/02/2025 09:41
Subject: ETA for travel to London - needed or a scam
Anonymous wrote:It’s another way to gauge travelers but it’s not a scam. You have to have it.
Gouge.
The gauging comes at border control. They have to decide whether or not you're too shifty.
Anonymous
12/02/2025 09:40
Subject: ETA for travel to London - needed or a scam
Anonymous wrote:Why on earth would you have thought it’s a scam?
To be fair, these types of things are often surrounded by some sort of scam where somebody offers a "service" to get it for you and add on a $50 "expedited fee" or similar. Often if you google it those sponsored links show up above the official link.
Anonymous
12/02/2025 09:38
Subject: Re:ETA for travel to London - needed or a scam
It’s digitized immigration. I didn’t realize ETA was needed for Australia until I was at the airport in Honolulu. Luckily the airline staff helped me get connected and it was received within 15 minutes. A very stressful 15 minutes though.
Better to allow a few days.
Better to allow a few days.
Anonymous
12/02/2025 09:30
Subject: ETA for travel to London - needed or a scam
It’s another way to gauge travelers but it’s not a scam. You have to have it.
Anonymous
12/02/2025 09:24
Subject: ETA for travel to London - needed or a scam
Download the official app, you'll probably be approved in about 60 seconds and it is way easier than their website.
If you think this is a scam, and couldn't figure it out with 30 seconds of internet searching, perhaps you should reconsider travel.
If you think this is a scam, and couldn't figure it out with 30 seconds of internet searching, perhaps you should reconsider travel.
Anonymous
12/02/2025 08:55
Subject: ETA for travel to London - needed or a scam
Anonymous wrote:We haven't been abroad in over a decade - since before kids, so forgive this question if everyone else already knows. We, family of 5, are traveling to London over Christmas break, and a coworker asked if we'd gotten our ETA yet. I had no idea what she was talking about. Google found this: https://share.google/2CKQym77Y6XDmNGX4
Is this for real and needed and just another way to collect money from tourists? Or a scam?
You absolutely need it, but luckily it's pretty easy. Just did it for the first time over the summer.
Anonymous
12/02/2025 08:53
Subject: ETA for travel to London - needed or a scam
Why on earth would you have thought it’s a scam?
Anonymous
12/02/2025 08:51
Subject: Re:ETA for travel to London - needed or a scam
Yes, you now need this to travel to the UK.
Anonymous
12/02/2025 08:35
Subject: ETA for travel to London - needed or a scam
We haven't been abroad in over a decade - since before kids, so forgive this question if everyone else already knows. We, family of 5, are traveling to London over Christmas break, and a coworker asked if we'd gotten our ETA yet. I had no idea what she was talking about. Google found this: https://share.google/2CKQym77Y6XDmNGX4
Is this for real and needed and just another way to collect money from tourists? Or a scam?
Is this for real and needed and just another way to collect money from tourists? Or a scam?