Hi
I'm really struggling here, so I'm hoping there is someone who has experience of what I'm doing who will be able to help.
Many thanks in advance if there is!
My situation is this: My wife and I have work permits to emigrate from the UK to Canada (initially for one year), and we have booked one-way flights for the 9th of November. Our travel itinerary is such that we have to change planes in Chicago, so we thought that we would take a two-day stopover there to break up the journey.
My question is the following: Do we need to obtain a visa in order to enter the USA?
I have spoken to officials at the American embassy in London twice and received two different answers to this question.
I'll not prejudice the discussion by telling you what the answers were, but if anyone has done this journey (either with a stopover, or without) then I would dearly love to know if you needed the visa.
Cheers
Dave
I'm really struggling here, so I'm hoping there is someone who has experience of what I'm doing who will be able to help.
Many thanks in advance if there is!
My situation is this: My wife and I have work permits to emigrate from the UK to Canada (initially for one year), and we have booked one-way flights for the 9th of November. Our travel itinerary is such that we have to change planes in Chicago, so we thought that we would take a two-day stopover there to break up the journey.
My question is the following: Do we need to obtain a visa in order to enter the USA?
I have spoken to officials at the American embassy in London twice and received two different answers to this question.
I'll not prejudice the discussion by telling you what the answers were, but if anyone has done this journey (either with a stopover, or without) then I would dearly love to know if you needed the visa.
Cheers
Dave