The 29-year-old nurse Pernille Jacobsen, Sønderborg, ought to right now have participated in two times 40 birthday in New York, along with his girlfriend and four other couples from Denmark.
instead the pair as the only one in the flock against their will been at home. Pernille Jacobsen could namely as the only one not getting approved his visa application (ESTA) to be allowed to enter the UNITED states. Now is 8000 dollars for plane tickets and hotel stay lost, because their insurance does not cover outside of the EU.
– I filled out an ESTA on the web on Friday, and on Tuesday I got reply that my Esta had been denied, says Pernille Jacobsen for Extra Magazine.
It is the U. S. Border and Customs Protection (CBP) in Washington, which handles applications from, for example, the danes, who want to travel to the UNITED states.
It is a little unclear, what exactly will the us authorities to repel the danes, but experience shows that it is typically people who may be suspects in criminal cases or people who have been on the journey to war-torn countries in the Middle east, which are rejected.
Pernille Jacobsen do not believe that she should have had a refusal, so she put the country and the empire in motion in order to get CBP to change the decision.
But in vain.
And neither the u.s. embassy in Copenhagen or CBP appeared that would justify the refusal to Pernille Jacobsen.
despite the fact that Pernille Jacobsen allied himself with a Danish company specializing in visa cases, so she managed not to get his visa before the scheduled flight departed on Thursday.
Now think she is her name, that must be the reason for the rejection.
– Of pure frustration yesterday my friend check and seeking on the web. So, she finds an article in Ekstra Bladet on a different Pernille Jacobsen, who in 2016, was refused to travel to the UNITED states. Also she wondered. It got me to thinking that it must be my name, there is something wrong with. I have not the faintest idea of what it otherwise would be, says Pernille Jacobsen.
– I feel angry, frustrated, and also abused. I also think it is hugely embarrassing. I have the feeling that someone has tampered with my identity. And it is annoying that we have made sure to get the kids looked after. We have got free from work. And so must I be at home, because apparently I must be suspected of something ugly, ” she says.
in addition to the 8000 kroner, Pernille Jacobsen and her boyfriend have lost on unused airline tickets and hotel stay, Pernille Jacobsen also spent 2500 dollars on to obtain a Danish company specializing in visa applications to help.
Wednesday ran she with a friend to Odense only to be on stand-by in the event that the u.s. embassy in Copenhagen would take her to a lyninterview. It could be an option, that would do, that she could still be allowed to travel to the UNITED states, explained a staff member from the contracted company.
But the embassy never returned.
A spokesperson from the CBP writes in an email to Ekstra Bladet, first and foremost, it is important that you apply for a ESTA visa as soon as possible before her journey.
‘Applicants whose ESTA applications are rejected, please refer to the site’s Travel information to get information on how to apply for a visa to enter the UNITED states’, reads it in the mail.
the Spokesperson can not say anything specific about why Pernille Jacobsen’s denial of its application, but explains that if a denied applicant has specific issues for the refusal, you must contact the DHS Traveler Reason Inquiry Program, if one considers that the application has been treated unfairly.
