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The actual success story, USA included South Korea in visa waiver program: https://vwp.ustravel.org/sites/default/files/South%20Korea_0...

I think all parties would benefit if USA would add a few more countries to Visa Waiver Program like Poland, Bulgaria, Rumania and Croatia.

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Frankly the idea of a NATO country not part of the visa waiver is absurd. If the citizens of a country are worthy enough for the USA to be ready to send its youth in their defense, they probably are ok to enter USA without visa.

The US has a massive problem with illegal immigration from Mexico and Romania is even poorer than Mexico. It wouldn't make any sense at all to have visa waivers for citizens from countries that poor.

I think that the US is suffering an illegal immigration problem stemming from Central American countries and not Mexico. There's a downward trend observed from immigration to Mexico to USA in aggregate numbers (legal plus illegal) and for legal migrants, the numbers are heading in the other direction with more people from Mexico going back home than coming to the US.[0]

Please note too that Mexico is going through an economic boom esp. in manufacturing that's fueling this trend.

[0]: http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/11/19/more-mexicans-leaving-...

It also makes no sense to have mutual defense pacts with them ...

The USA now has 10 year tourist visas for people from China, so I don't see it as much of a problem (most passports have 10 year validity).

10 years for Indians too in general.

I had an unlimited-validity-multiple-reentry visa for the US in an old passport. When the passport expired, the page containing the visa was left alone, everything else was mutilated and the whole mess returned to me. I never tested it, but the visa supposedly remained valid.

EDIT: Writing "visa" as if it was a singular noun really feels strange, even if everybody does it. You know, the pages in your passport are labeled "visa" because they can contain many of them...

The visa is valid. If travelling to the US keep both, the valid passport and the valid visa. Whatever you do do not cut out the visa and try and glue it into the new passport.

/fromexperience

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