The U.S. Visa Waiver Program

What is the Visa Waiver Program?

The Visa Waiver Program (VWP) is a program set up by the U.S. Department of State to facilitate the screening of travelers to the U.S. and strengthen security at U.S. borders. It allows nationals of member countries to travel to the United States for tourism or business without obtaining a visa under certain ESTA eligibility conditions.

To qualify for this visa waiver: Nationals of partner countries must complete the ESTA form online.

List of VWP member countries

Here is a list of all countries benefiting from the US visa waiver program for their nationals.

Germany	Spain	Liechtenstein	UK
Andorra	Finland	Lithuania	San Marino
Australia	France	Luxemburg	Singapore
Austria	Greece	Malta	Slovakia
Belgium	Hungary	monaco	Slovenia
Brunei	Ireland	Norway	Sweden
Chile	Iceland	New Zealand	Swiss
Croatia	Israel	Netherlands	Taiwan
South Korea	Italy	Poland
Denmark	Japan	Portugal
Estonia	Latvia	Czech republic

List of VWP member countries

Which countries are eligible for the U.S. visa waiver program?

Countries join the U.S. Visa Waiver Program by implementing enhanced border management. The conditions required by the U.S. administration to become a VWP member are :

To issue US-compliant passports to its nationals;
To share some of the country’s security data with the United States ;
To maintain for the United States a list of national passports reported stolen or lost;
To have an American visitor visa refusal rate of less than 3%;
Actively combat terrorism at border controls.