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Americantpro Visa Service: This service is only available to clients who have booked with American Tour Professionals. In most cases, where we advise visas are required, the Americantpro Visa Service can obtain these for you. Full details on how to obtain a visa, cost and application time will be sent with your confirmation invoice, these are all subject to change. Residents outside the US, non American passport holders and late booking passengers should check urgently with Americantpro Visa Service or the embassy direct as it may not be possible to obtain the visa in time prior to arrival.

*For your visa enquiries on the indicated destinations please contact the Americantpro Visa Service at: visa@americantpro.com-->


Passports and Visas: All travelers traveling to other countries should check visa requirements with the relevant embassy. You should ensure that you have a valid ten year passport and, as many countries require expiry dates on passports to be a considerable length of time after the return from holiday, we would recommend that your passport is valid for 6 months after return to the country of origin. Many countries including USA now require children to hold their own passports and additional countries are adopting this policy on an ongoing basis. We therefore recommend that all children travel on full passports.

USA requirements: The US Government has reinforced their entry regulations making some important changes which are now in effect:

  • All passports must be machine readable ie: red passports. If you still have an old blue passport you will need to obtain a visa before travelling, or apply for a new passport. Passports issued on or after October 26 2006, must also include an integrated circuit chip capable of storing the biographic information from the data page, a digitized photograph and other biometric information. Please check with the US Passport Site www.travel.state.gov for further information. Also applicable to passengers in transit in the US.

  • The US Govt now requires all passengers entering the US to provide details of their country of residence, as well as full postal address of the first US hotel. This information is currently being collected by the airline upon check-in. The airline will also collect details of your passport number and country of issue, citizenship, full names as they appear on your passport, gender and date of birth, all of which is obtained by swiping your passport at the check-in desk.

US Customs will not allow entry to anyone with incorrect papers: Traveling subjects should check with the relevant Embassy at the earliest opportunity for the latest information. There are certain exceptions where British passport holders do require a visa for entering the USA, which must be obtained prior to travel. For full advice on this please visit the US embassy website on http://www.state.gov/misc/59452.htm.

Canadian entry regulations : If you have committed or been convicted of a criminal offence including driving whilst impaired, you may be prohibited from entering Canada. For further information please contact the Canadian High Commission in your country of origin.