# 2025-00609: DHS Wants Your Opinion on Foreign Visitor Paperwork Changes 2025-00609, Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision; Arrival and Departure Record (Forms I-94, I-94W) and Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA), is a Federal Register notice from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-14, effective Comments must be submitted (no later than March 17, 2025) to be assured of consideration. (as of 2026-06-08). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-00609 - As of: 2026-06-08 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Document number: 2025-00609 - Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision; Arrival and Departure Record (Forms I-94, I-94W) and Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) - Type: Notice - Agencies: unknown - Citation: unknown - Published: 2025-01-14 - Effective: Comments must be submitted (no later than March 17, 2025) to be assured of consideration. - Comments close: not stated - Significant: no - Touches household money: no - Regulation identifier numbers: none - Last updated: 2026-06-08 ## In one line DHS Wants Your Opinion on Foreign Visitor Paperwork Changes ## Summary The Department of Homeland Security is updating the forms and electronic system travelers use when entering or leaving the U.S. (Forms I-94, I-94W, and ESTA). If you travel internationally, these changes might affect how you provide your info. The public can share their thoughts by March 17, 2025, and the update aims to keep things smooth without extra costs or delays. ## Abstract The Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). The information collection is published in the Federal Register to obtain comments from the public and affected agencies. ## Effects PRIA read - ESTA website will require a selfie: cost, low. If you apply for travel authorization under the Visa Waiver Program (ESTA) through the ESTA website, you will be required to provide a photograph of your face (a “selfie”) in addition to the passport biographical-page photo. Third parties (for example, travel agents or family members) applying on y… - Air/sea arrivals no longer fill paper I-94: benefit, low. CBP now gathers I-94 arrival/departure data for passengers arriving by air or sea from automated sources like the Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) instead of requiring travelers to submit a paper I-94 upon arrival. Travelers entering at land ports may apply for a provisional electronic I… - ESTA collection to cover added VWP countries: benefit, medium. CBP is updating the ESTA/I-94 collections to account for travelers from currently designated Visa Waiver Program (VWP) countries and from potentially added VWP countries over the next three years; once a country is designated as a VWP country, eligible citizens may travel to the U.S. for up to 90 d… - VWP ineligibility for certain country travel since Mar 1, 2022: cost, medium. Under the Visa Waiver Program Improvement Act, certain nationals of VWP countries are generally ineligible to travel under the VWP if, at the time of applying for admission, they are nationals of or have been present on or after March 1, 2022, in Iraq, Syria, a country designated as a state sponsor… - Estimated time burden for travelers and responses: cost, low. CBP estimates per-response times for these collections: Paper I-94 — 8 minutes (1,782,564 respondents); I-94 website — 4 minutes (91,411 respondents); I-94W — 16 minutes (1,138,644 respondents); ESTA Mobile — 22 minutes (2,172,611 respondents); ESTA website — 18 minutes (12,311,462 respondents). 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