Here's a bit of gen that might prove useful.
There is no need or requirement for ESTA when travelling to the US for work purposes as long as you have a passport, your ID card and a NATO travel order.
I flew to the US yesterday on the Virgin flight. Checking in required me to speak to one of the fitties in the red skirts, showed her my travel order, passport and ID card, she then manually inputted my hotel address into the system and I was checked in, took a whole 2 minutes.
When we got to Dulles, I queued up in the US Citizen bit (because that's fine if you have a travel order or an A2 visa) and got through really quickly, saved well over an hour of queueing. The only form you are required to fill in is the customs declaration, you don't even have to fill in the white one that Brits with visas fill in.
US Immigration has improved a LOT since I was last here in 2005 when the guy had never heard of a nato travel order, they seem pretty efficient these days.
There is no need or requirement for ESTA when travelling to the US for work purposes as long as you have a passport, your ID card and a NATO travel order.
I flew to the US yesterday on the Virgin flight. Checking in required me to speak to one of the fitties in the red skirts, showed her my travel order, passport and ID card, she then manually inputted my hotel address into the system and I was checked in, took a whole 2 minutes.
When we got to Dulles, I queued up in the US Citizen bit (because that's fine if you have a travel order or an A2 visa) and got through really quickly, saved well over an hour of queueing. The only form you are required to fill in is the customs declaration, you don't even have to fill in the white one that Brits with visas fill in.
US Immigration has improved a LOT since I was last here in 2005 when the guy had never heard of a nato travel order, they seem pretty efficient these days.