If at all you are looking forward to traveling to the United States under the Visa Waiver Program, you need to know of the fact that the requirements for visa free travels as allowed under the program have been enhanced for the sake of strengthening the security of the travels to the United States. These changes basically effect such a change as to necessitate the need for such individuals from such countries that fall in the Visa Waiver Program to call on them to ensure that they have obtained with them travel authorization prior to making their travels to the United States.
There is a secure public website that has been availed by the Department of Homeland Security and the United States Customs and Border Protection and it is on this website that you will need to visit so as to make your application for the travel authorization for the visa free travel which is done on an automated application form that you will fill out to complete the application. By and large, the application process is not any complex as all you need to do is to find the ESTA application form in all its parts, look for the personal and payment details and fill these out accordingly, make your payment as in the prompts, and after you have done this, you can be sure to be receiving your ESTA authorization via email in but a short while.
For one thing that you need to know of when it comes to the ESTA authorizations and your travels to the United States is that for whatever reason it is that is seeing you to the United States as a traveler, be it for business, tourism or for transit purposes, you need to make sure that you have applied for your ESTA authorization online before you are finally out for the journey ahead.
The Electronic System for Travel Authorization, ESTA, essentially serves as an automated system that helps determine the eligibility of the foreigners who will be traveling to the United States under the Visa Waiver Program. This as such means that for you to be able to use these systems for your travel authentication needs, you need to at least satisfy some of the basics and one of these is to be coming from such countries that fall under the Visa Waiver Program. Added to this is the fact that your stay in the United States in the travel you are applying for authorization for is one that will not go for more than 90 days. You as well need to have with you a return ticket.