To enter in the United States is necessary a valid passport for all of the period of permanence, the cards of journey to return and the visa. This finish it is obtained compiling the form I-94W that you should deliver to the arrival to the authority of the office immigration and whose validity is of 90 days. It is tight personal and for the minor of 14 years it should be signed from the father or from the army the homeland power (the form is available on the flight of entrance in the United States and have it all the aerial companies that participate in the program Face Waiver Pilot Program). Part of this comes attached to the passport from the official one of immigration and it should never be detached until you do not leave definitive the United States (at any rate is the employee of the aerial company that provides to remove it).
 To leave from October 26 2004 can make use of this alone program the persons that possessor a passport to optic reading. This type of approval is valid only for tourism, transactions or transit.
 After the income in the States with this type of approval, it is possible to carry out travels in Mexico, Canada and the contiguous islands, provided that the contiguous duration total of the stay (USA and countries) does not exceed the 90 days.
 The approval will come denied who belongs to one of the considered categories unacceptable. These categories comprise, between the other, persons with criminal record, persons affected from serious contagious or mental diseases, persons who have made use or drug traffic, persons to which have been already refused the approval.
 If you go in the United States for motive of study should ask for the visa presenting the form I-20 TO&B with a documentation (the list of the documents can ask for it to the Comforted Americans of Rome, Milan, Naples).
 There are essentially three types of visa to enter in the United States, the Face Waiver Program, the Visa for Not-Immigrating and the Visa for Immigrating. In the greater part of the cases it is sufficient the first one and the citizens of the nations can use it that participate in this program and that travel in the United States for tourism or business for an utmost of 90 days.
 Participating in the Face Waiver Program, is not necessary to ask for a visa and is sufficient to replenish a form on the airplane. In all the other cases is necessary to ask for a visa.
 It is mattering to underline that the visa, of whatever type is, not from the law to enter in the United States.
To bring itself in the United States without visa answers itself to all the following questions:

• You are in possession of a passport released from one of the countries that they adhere to the Face Waiver Program (Italy is between these)?
• You are in possession of a passport to optic reading?
• You travel exclusively for business and/or tourism?
• Your permanence in the United States will be of a not superior period to 90 days and have a cards of the return?
• The children that travel with you are in possession of an actual passport to optic reading? If it have answered negative to at least one of these questions you should ask for the visa. For further information visited the site of the American embassy to the section seen of entrance.

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