ESTA - "Authorization Pending" for 14 days and Counting!

[jrfsp]

If there was no record of your visit in your current passport how would they know
Not suggesting that’s the course of action.

 

[Mitch_W]

If there was no record of your visit in your current passport how would they know
Not suggesting that’s the course of action.

My current passport has a number of Visas to North Korea. But I would think that the US Government has access to all of our travel history with the technology that have even if I had a brand new passport.

 

[Scarlett]

If there was no record of your visit in your current passport how would they know
Not suggesting that’s the course of action.

They know.
Visiting certain countries isn’t a problem: not being honest is the problem.

 

[randompunter]

Yes that is a huge PITA. I had to go through the visa interview process after a trip to Iran. Living in NQ our nearest US Consulate is quite far away in Sydney. Took a few hours of shuffling and waiting for a simple 30 second interview, basically they asked "Why did you go to Iran?" We replied "Tourism" and all was fine. Annoyingly that rule came in in 2015, a few years after we had travelled in 2013 but was applied retroactively to 2011.