How Russians Can Visit the US Visa Free

[DaveNY]

Yes it's absolutely true that Russians living in Russia can visit the US for up to 45 days without a visa. The same applies to Chinese citizens living in China and Hong Kong.

No catches? Of course there's a catch. This rule only applies to Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. The Youtube video (link below) is from 2016 so the rules may have changed.

If you're Russian or Chinese and you want to say you've been to the US and don't want to go through the hassle of applying for a visa, visit Guam. BTW the visa (B-1/B-2 visas) rejection rate for Russians for FY 2017 was only 11.61%, for Chinese it was 14.57%.

Guam is very popular with Japanese tourists. Don't know why since Japanese tourists can also easily travel to Hawaii and there's far more to do in Hawaii.


http://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Statistics/Non-Immigrant-Statistics/RefusalRates/FY17.pdf

[ML]

This rule only applies to Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Guam is very popular with Japanese tourists. Don't know why since Japanese tourists can also easily travel to Hawaii and there's far more to do in Hawaii.

When I was young man in US Navy, I got orders transferring me from an aircraft carrier operating near Philippines back to USA.

Plane flew from Philippines and made stopovers in Guam and Hawaii.
Guam looked like a God forsaken place, but I had an enjoyable stopover because I knew a friend had been transferred there.  Easy to find him in the military directory and he quickly came over.  Not like he had anything else to do !!

[BillyB]

Guam is very popular with Japanese tourists. Don't know why since Japanese tourists can also easily travel to Hawaii and there's far more to do in Hawaii.

Japanese are big tourists in Hawaii. Waikiki is full of Japanese owned businesses. Guns are one reason Japanese visit America. If a Jap wants to shoot a gun at one of Guam's or Hawaii's many gun ranges and they don't care about the rest of the vacation, it's cheaper to shoot a gun in Guam.