ESTA Query
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And the diversion choices for YVR are YXX (Abottsford) which has a couple of long runways and YYJ (Victoria) both with Canadian immigration and Customs as well as YQQ (Comox) which is also an Air Force base.
En route YVR AKL, HNL would be one diversion choice, but not the only. Christmas Island, W. Samoa, Fiji, etc. would all be available.
Use the $14 to stimulate Canada's economy, not to feed the TSA.
En route YVR AKL, HNL would be one diversion choice, but not the only. Christmas Island, W. Samoa, Fiji, etc. would all be available.
Use the $14 to stimulate Canada's economy, not to feed the TSA.
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As Cheetah says, the ESTA basically acts as a pre-screened multi-entry short term visa.
If for some reason your flight to Canada is diverted to a US airport and you don't have an ESTA, upon reaching the nice person at Immigration and you are from a visa-waiver country, they will give you one of the green I-94W forms (the ones you used to fill before ESTA) to fill out and then process your entrance to the USA. At least, that is what happened to me in 2012. I presume things haven't changed in 18 months.
Back to the question of the original poster; do you need an ESTA to fly to Canada "just-in-case" - No.
Should you get one? - Depends if you plan on flying to the US anytime soon.
Does it hurt to get one? - It's $14. You decide.
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Do you need a visa for Christmas Island if it isn't pudding season?
I've even tried going cold turkey, but it's just making matters worse.......
Está servira para distraerle.
Christmas food on the island concerned is long pig. By all accounts it's very tasty and it doesn't give you worms, unlike the real deal meal.
