With our never used passports (see Dutch Travel Documents… (2)) it was necessary to apply for the Electronic System for Travel Authorization of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. This necessary to before traveling to the United States of America and can be done on the Travel Authorization website. This approval process cost 14$ a person.

In most of the cases you get an instant approval like we got. We filled out the questions in Dutch but here is the prove of the authorization:

We are prepared and we can’t wait to leave!

Important note for other visitors make sure you use the right link there are a lot of phishing website on the web which just steel your credit card information. The right link of the website is: https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/