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katriona_s) wrote2025-06-15 12:39 pm
katriona_s) wrote2025-06-15 12:39 pm
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ETA (UK)
I'm going to Britain for my holiday trip in Aug, and will need ETA. So I got it with my smartphone. I don't like to input my card information to my smartphone so first tried to get it on internet (with my computer) but could not find how on the official UK website and reluctantly used the smartphone. They say it's "the easiest way" to get ETA, yes they might be right IF you are accustomed to use smartphone well. But in my case, it's far from "easiest" !!
I installed the ETA App into my smartphone, which read the chip in my passport (thankfully I have just got the new passport and it has the chip in it) , with which I took the photo of myself etc. The English instruction is simple but in reality it's not very easy. For example, when I take the selfie the App showed the oval frame on the screen but my arm is not long enough to get the whole image of my face and neck in that frame - maybe for the Westerners who generally has the longer arms it's OK. In every step I found the similar difficulties, it's really irritating!! :( And I need to do every thing within 20 or 30 minutes otherwise the application would be cancelled. Very unkind to non-English speaker.
Now I think... it's becoming more and more difficult to travel abroad.
I installed the ETA App into my smartphone, which read the chip in my passport (thankfully I have just got the new passport and it has the chip in it) , with which I took the photo of myself etc. The English instruction is simple but in reality it's not very easy. For example, when I take the selfie the App showed the oval frame on the screen but my arm is not long enough to get the whole image of my face and neck in that frame - maybe for the Westerners who generally has the longer arms it's OK. In every step I found the similar difficulties, it's really irritating!! :( And I need to do every thing within 20 or 30 minutes otherwise the application would be cancelled. Very unkind to non-English speaker.
Now I think... it's becoming more and more difficult to travel abroad.