Authorization now required in UK: Your ETA Guide

As we reported, now you need travel authorization to visit the United Kingdom.

The new electronic authorization application was opened in November over this year, and several of us at TPG already passed through this process. There are a few things to be aware of, but understand the overall.

Unfortunately, they have raised the price since I started writing this article in the past few months. But you can follow these steps of a painless application.

Download the UK app et

Like the UK government website Notes, the easiest application of the official application is available through IOS and Android.

Make sure you work only with Gov.uk website – some sites that will help you “will charge unnecessary fees.

Note that if you are unable to access app for any reason, you can apply online. But for me, I just downloaded the app and I put it right on my phone.

If you open the app, it will travel in process. First, you will need to submit an email and verify with a six-digit code.

If you have verified your phone number and email, you can pass to the crafty part.

Using the app to capture the image and scan your passport

The next step is where some people are going astray. You will need to use the app to view your passport – and capture the chip within your passport, too.

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That gold image before the passport above means the microchip is installed inside. (Don’t worry if your passport doesn’t have a biometric chip or you can find it to scan; you can still get the travel permission, but you will need to do online with a previously given link.)

When you have finished photographing your photos, the app will ask you to take your phone up and down on the front cover to scan the chip.

That didn’t work at my start. It didn’t work at the beginning of my colleague Lyndsey Matthews when applying at the beginning of this month. “That was a cunning part,” said Lyndsey. “I finally found it to scan well after four failed attempts. Pro Tip: Take the case on your mobile.”

Happily, the app will tell you that if it doesn’t get a chip.

Me, finally worked when I catch my phone over the back of my passport. Obviously, on many American passports, electronic chip is actually within the back cover, not before.

After the issue was first published, Dennis Marnis Markam, “because I two of my travel partner with me, we had successful chip from a midf of a crazy pipe.”

So you may need to try a few different ways to get a chip to scan.

To take a photograph of the authorization of travel

Next, you will need to scan your face to show you are a person, and take a passport style picture.

You will need a bright white background without shadows for this – something that travels many people.

“I had to take it three times to make sure there was no shadows in my face and that the hero were white,” Lyndsey said.

It was also supposed to take my picture repeatedly to work. Some users report that opening a selffe flash is very helpful, too, although I didn’t keep it there when I got it right away from my face.

Answer a series of questions to complete the Authorization Program in the UK travel

While you will not need to fill with any information about the coming trip, the app will request your home address, your performance, and that you have been convicted or accused of any offense.

Paying the Tourism Authorization in the UK

Next comes the payment screen. As you can see below, I ended up paying $ 12,73 for my system, but this was before the price increased in the British pound, so I received a deal by registration early. So your partner Lyndiey.

“I used Apple Pay with my Bilt MasterCard® And he was charged for $ 12,97, “said Lyndsey.” You can also pay for Google Pay or Credit or Bank Card. Because I used my bolt Mastercard on February 1, I found a double rental bonus of the points of the application. “

Note: Bold card holders must use the card five times each of making points for score; Points repeated on the recruitment date is dismissed by 1,000 points and excludes the fee.

Once you have completed your payment, the app will display a successful application for an ETA reference number.

Many users have to receive their approval within minutes, but the UK government warns that he can take three business days to get permission, so it may be better.

I received an email immediately that confirmed that my plan was waiting – again, one minute later, one email says I will be approved.

Tanner Saunders and Lolndsey Matthews also receive emails in its approval for about three minutes. Seek emails from the UK visas and the Home Office to track your application.

“As ETA was linked to the passport, it was a long time I would print anything,” said Lyndsey. “When I arrived at Heathrow, I passed by Epasspoppoppoppoppoppoppepport as a normal and out of terminal 3 to catch the Heathrow Express within five minutes.”

Authorization is ok for two years or until your Passport is expired, any shortly. You can also go to the UK as often as you want to in the same ETA.

A bit of bitterness

The new UK application procedure is painless when you are familiar with technology. Additional Costs and Visiting Steps may irritate, but the predictions of long lines and chaos in transit portal has been added.

I hope, when the European Union releases its version sometime this year or the following year, it will start.

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