Timeline for Do cruise passengers answer In Transit on the ESTA application?
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| Dec 10, 2021 at 21:24 | comment | added | gnasher729 | I chose “in transit” :-( and got the ESTA within a few hours. Otherwise you can’t submit the form without a valid street and number, and a valid phone number. And these seem impossible to find out for a cruise ship. The address for the cruise company I could find, but no phone number either. And mobile number seems no problem. BTW My company doesn’t have a phone number! | |
| Dec 9, 2021 at 16:34 | comment | added | phoog | @gnasher729 does the form's validation prevent submitting it with an answer such as "aboard m/v something-or-other"? Don't ships have phone numbers these days? Can't you give a foreign mobile number (and wouldn't you have to do that if staying with a friend who has no land line?)? | |
| Dec 9, 2021 at 16:02 | history | edited | DJClayworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 9, 2021 at 15:44 | comment | added | gnasher729 | Problem with cruise ship + not transit is that the ESTA asks you for an address. With a town and street number and a phone number. | |
| Jun 6, 2019 at 21:00 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | @DavidRicherby ANC airport actually had a "sterile" transit area for such flights, the only airport in the US to ever have one. There wasn't much to it; it was a large room with seating and little else. People on such flights had to wait in the room while the plane was serviced. So, yes, changing planes could make a difference. | |
| Jun 5, 2019 at 22:37 | comment | added | DJClayworth | @DavidRicherby My assumption was that if they came and left on the same ship then the stop would be just part of the cruise, and they didn't need to get off, in which case the reason for coming to NY could only be tourism. If it was a different ship/plane then the purpose of coming ashore would be to get on the other ship/plane and that would be transit. I admit it's an assumption but it seemed reasonable at the time. Frankly the comment here have got extremely complicated for something that I thought was going to be an easy answer, and I'm beginning to regret it. | |
| Jun 5, 2019 at 22:16 | comment | added | Doc | There is a fundamental difference between aircraft flight(s), who's purpose is to get from A to B even if via C, and a cruise ship who's purpose is as a floating hotel with stops along the way for day excursions. Trying to compare the two in any way is flawed. | |
| Jun 5, 2019 at 21:06 | comment | added | David Richerby | @DJClayworth I don't understand the same ship/different ship distinction. During the Cold War, Soviet airspace was closed and flights from Europe to the Far East would go via Alaska, and refuel there. Are you saying that somebody who travelled, e.g, London-Anchorage-Tokyo on one plane would be a tourist and somebody who travelled London-Anchorage on one plane and Anchorage-Tokyo on another would be in transit? | |
| Jun 5, 2019 at 21:02 | comment | added | DJClayworth | I meant to say that in my last paragraph. | |
| Jun 5, 2019 at 20:47 | comment | added | phoog | @Doc, DJClayworth regardless of whether it's the same ship, and even if the answer should be "no" in this case, answering "yes" is unlikely to have any adverse effects (nor would answering no if the correct answer is yes). | |
| Jun 5, 2019 at 19:16 | comment | added | DJClayworth | Hence my comment on the question. If the OP is arriving by cruise ship and departing on the same cruise ship then they are in not transit. If they are arriving by ship and then departing by some other route then they are (probably) in transit. | |
| Jun 5, 2019 at 19:15 | history | edited | DJClayworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 5, 2019 at 19:12 | comment | added | Doc | This doesn't really answer the question. Transit implies the only reason you are there is as a means to get to somewhere else. A cruise ship stops are clearly not that. There is no way this could be considered transit. | |
| Jun 5, 2019 at 17:33 | history | edited | DJClayworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 5, 2019 at 13:33 | history | answered | DJClayworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |