Woman accidentally informs the U.S. that she's a terrorist via online travel form

While planning a visit to the United States, a British woman unwittingly answered “Yes” to an online travel application query asking if she had ever engaged in terrorist activity.

Accordingly, Mandie Stevenson’s U.S. travel application was promptly denied, reports the BBC.

“At first I thought it was a bad dream and then I realised what I had done,” Stevenson said on the BBC radio show “Mornings with Stephen Jardine.”

Image: screenshot/department of homeland security

Stevenson had been applying for a travel application using the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Electronic System for Travel Authorization site, or ESTA, when she erred. Specifically, Stevenson was applying for a “visa waiver program,” wherein citizens of some countries can enter the U.S. without going through a more tedious visa process. Read more…

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Source: Mashable | Woman accidentally informs the U.S. that she's a terrorist via online travel form