About this site
This is a privately operated website. It is not the United States Government and has no connection to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Department of Homeland Security, or any government agency.
What we do
Two things.
We publish free guidance on the Electronic System for Travel Authorization — what it costs, who qualifies, how long it lasts, what happens when it goes wrong. All of it is free to read, and none of it is behind a form.
We sell an optional review. Before you submit your application to CBP, a person compares the details you are about to enter against your passport and tells you what to fix. That service is charged separately from the government fee, which you always pay to CBP yourself.
What we deliberately do not do
- We do not submit applications to CBP. You do that, on the official site.
- We do not collect or hold the government fee. It never passes through us.
- We do not review your answers to the eligibility questions about arrests, convictions or medical conditions, and we do not store them.
- We do not give legal or immigration advice, and we are not attorneys.
- We do not claim to influence, expedite or guarantee CBP’s decision, because nobody can.
Why this site exists
The ESTA process is short but unforgiving. Several fields cannot be corrected after submission, so a transposed digit in a passport number means paying the government fee a second time and reapplying, sometimes days before a flight.
It is also a category thick with sites that imply official status, hide their own fee inside a total, or promise approval rates they have no ability to affect. Being the plain, accurate option in that environment is the whole idea.
How we are funded
Entirely by the service fee. We do not take commissions for sending you anywhere, and we do not sell or share your data.
Accuracy
Every factual claim here is sourced to CBP or another government publication, and every page carries the date it was last checked. Fees, country lists and rules change — the ESTA fee itself nearly doubled in September 2025 — so if you find something on this site that is out of date, please tell us and we will correct it.
Our approach to sourcing and corrections is set out in our editorial policy.