Timeline for Author visiting the USA for vacation under the Visa Waiver Program - Can they write?
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| Dec 30, 2016 at 18:24 | history | edited | pnuts |
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| May 14, 2016 at 12:56 | vote | accept | t1021 | ||
| May 11, 2016 at 16:31 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | As a practical matter, how would you get caught? A tourist sitting a hotel room typing on a laptop or writing in a notebook could be making notes on their travel diary or writing the next great novel and nobody would know the difference, nor do immigration authorities keep such close tabs on your everyday activities. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 16:31 | answer | added | Nean Der Thal | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 11, 2016 at 16:02 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackTravel/status/730427803439661056 | ||
| May 11, 2016 at 15:03 | comment | added | CMaster | This starts to get in to the same issue with any "creative" task - when counts as "working"? Are you not allowed to think up new ideas even, that you may one day sell? Or is the "work" the act of turning those ideas, characters, outlines (which may take a long time to develop) into the "product" of a manuscript (which may be a quick process). Not that I'd necessarily advise a philosphical debate with a border agent. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 14:33 | comment | added | Fattie | You are totally OK. Don't even worry about it. purely theoretically it's an interesting question. For example, in the case of an incredibly successful author (say, JK Rowling), you do wonder if the US authorities would have something to say about it or if it would affect Her (probably hugely complicated) tax issues in some way. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 13:36 | history | edited | blackbird | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 11, 2016 at 13:16 | comment | added | CMaster | @JonathanReez Those illegal immigrants are probably not hoping to be able to travel to the US in future under the VWP however (or to other countries that the US shares information with) | |
| May 11, 2016 at 13:02 | comment | added | JonathanReez♦ | 10 million illegal immigrants get away with full-time jobs in the US and you're worried about writing a novel? | |
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| May 11, 2016 at 12:57 | comment | added | CMaster | Please read this: travel.stackexchange.com/questions/66243/… - you seem to have some (not unusal) confusion between ESTA (which says nothing about what you can do in the US) and the VWP (which does) | |
| May 11, 2016 at 12:55 | history | edited | CMaster | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 11, 2016 at 12:54 | history | asked | t1021 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |