Can I apply for B1-B2 visa if ESTA is still valid?
Upvote:7
Yes, you can apply for a B1/B2 visa (or for that matter, any other visa) whilst you hold an ESTA. In general this would not be required as a ESTA/VWP gives you basically the same status as a B1/B2, however the reason you've stated is one of the few differences - VWP is only valid for 3 months, whilst a B1/B2 can allow you to stay longer (normally up to 6 months).
Given that your ESTA was approved despite your arrest, and given that you were not convicted, it is unlikely it will have any impact on your Visa application - however you will need to provide details of the arrest, and it is possible that your application will be delayed as a result. I would suggest taking as much evidence of your record as possible, especially documents showing the dismissal of the charges.
More post
- 📝 How can I find the time schedule of flights to/from a given airport?
- 📝 Is it safe to travel with Radio Frequency (RF) Board packed in a laptop carry-on bag
- 📝 Early morning on-demand taxi in Barcelona, Spain
- 📝 How bad is the transit security queue at IST airport
- 📝 Dublin-Newark-Vancouver. Two-hour layover
- 📝 Visa refusal from the United States Embassy in Ghana
- 📝 Renting a cab from Manali to Ladakh
- 📝 Canadian transit visa for an international student in the US
- 📝 Can I bring caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) in my checked-in luggage?
- 📝 U.S. Bank ATM cards and credit card acceptance in Russia 2015,
- 📝 How can you navigate the metro and bus in Belarus on your smartphone?
- 📝 Can I use a US visa in my old Kenya passport after being issued the new East African Community passport?
- 📝 Visa requirements for Filipino traveling to Costa Rica via South Korea and USA
- 📝 Traveling Asia & need to switch to my other passport
- 📝 Can Egyptian citizen visit Armenia on valid USA visa?
- 📝 Madagascar in Dec/Jan, how bad is the rainy season?
- 📝 Transiting in Newark from Terminal B to C
- 📝 15 Hours Layover in NRT
- 📝 What if a new romantic interest wants you to carry stuff through customs?
- 📝 How restricted are tourists coming to Japan as part of an organized tour?
- 📝 Can I bring my desktop parts with me to Canada?
- 📝 Travel from Europe to Latin-America by boat in November
- 📝 Getting around Germany (flight / travel strategy)
- 📝 Does some US agency keep track of one's domestic (= within the US) travels by plane, and if so, can one get a copy of it?
- 📝 I have a British passport, don’t need a visa to travel to the US but have a earlier denial
- 📝 Etihad Airways: business class upgrade ignored; no refund yet
- 📝 Can I leave airport in 3 hours 15 min transit
- 📝 Airline changing your departure date
- 📝 How can I buy tickets to see a performance in the Teatro Amazonas?
- 📝 Car rental insurance in US with Canadian hired car
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Can I apply for B1-B2 visa if ESTA is still valid?
- 📝 Can I apply for a 60-day tourist visa while I'm still in Thailand?
- 📝 As an Indian citizen on a valid H1-B in the USA, can I apply for my Schengen visa in Canada?
- 📝 Can I apply for an ESTA while I have a pending US visa application for my second non-VWP eligible passport?
- 📝 Can a US citizen apply for an ESTA visa to visit US?
- 📝 Apply for a new visa when I still have a valid C visa but not enough days of stay?
- 📝 Can I apply for a new Schengen visa while holding a valid single-entry Schengen visa?
- 📝 Can I apply for a US visit visa from Pakistan while my immigration visa CR1 is still pending?
- 📝 Can I apply for a tourism visa for my next trip to China while still in China?
- 📝 Can I apply for a Canadian visitor visa in the US with an expired US F-1 visa and an valid I-20?
- 📝 Refused tourist visa and ESTA more than 2 years ago, can I apply for ESTA Again?
- 📝 Can I apply for another Schengen visa if I already have a valid one and travel is pending on it
- 📝 Can I apply for new visitor's visa while current one is still valid?
- 📝 Can I apply for en ESTA visa while on an F1
- 📝 ESTA still valid but new passport. can I ask for a new esta?
- 📝 Can I apply for ESTA with passport valid since february?
- 📝 UK visa valid for the next 5 months. Can I apply for a Schengen visa?
- 📝 Can a student visa holder in New Zealand apply for a visitor visa to Australia while still in New Zealand?
- 📝 Can I apply for a medical e-visa to India if I already have a valid tourist visa in my passport?
- 📝 Can I apply for visit visa in the UK while my settlement visa application is still pending for tribunal appeal?
- 📝 Can I apply for a Greece Schengen visa while my current visa is valid, assuming I don't overlap the visa dates?
- 📝 When filling out an online visa application for UK, how can you apply at a consulate different from your current place of residency?
- 📝 UK visa interview appointment for an infant is four hours later than for its parents. Can we still go together?
- 📝 Can I apply for a US visa in Myanmar as an Indian citizen?
- 📝 Can I get married in the UK on a Marriage visitor visa then return home and apply for a Spouse visa?
- 📝 Applied for ESTA and was denied. Subsequently, secured a visa and travelled to US. Can I try ESTA again?
- 📝 Can I apply for another visa while in another country?
- 📝 Is there a limit to how early one can apply for a Visa in the United States?
- 📝 Can I visit other GCC countries if I hold a valid visa for one of them?
- 📝 Can we apply for a Schengen tourist visa while visiting another country on a short-stay visa?
