Acquiring new citizenship and ESTA

[Littlepaws]

Hello, I'm currently a British passport holder, with a valid ESTA until next February.

As I applied for Irish citizenship at the beginning of this year, I would expect to receive that before I travel in December.

I'm just wondering if I would need to apply for a new ESTA if I receive that citizenship before my travels as I noted in the application form that any changes to citizenship would need a new one, but not sure if this applies in this case.

[Ticktack]

Hello, I'm currently a British passport holder, with a valid ESTA until next February.

As I applied for Irish citizenship at the beginning of this year, I would expect to receive that before I travel in December.

I'm just wondering if I would need to apply for a new ESTA if I receive that citizenship before my travels as I noted in the application form that any changes to citizenship would need a new one, but not sure if this applies in this case.

If you're travelling on your British passport still, you don't need to reapply for an ESTA.

Your info was correct at the time of obtaining the ESTA. That's all that matters!

[Littlepaws]

If you're travelling on your British passport still, you don't need to reapply for an ESTA.

Your info was correct at the time of obtaining the ESTA. That's all that matters!

Thanks for the speedy response!

I was trawling through the CBP website, and came across this though:

"When do I need to reapply for an ESTA?
A new travel authorization may be required in any of the following circumstances:

The traveler is issued a new passport
The traveler changes his or her name
The traveler's country of citizenship changes; or
The circumstances underlying the traveler's previous responses to any of the ESTA application questions requiring a "yes" or "no" response have changed."


Technically a response to one of the questions would have changed from a no to a yes for me though. So I guess I will need to apply for a new ESTA once I officially receive that citizenship? or is there something I'm missing here?

[Ticktack]

You're reading it wrong and it doesn't apply to you.

Your VWP ESTA is valid for 2 years or until passport expiration. whichever comes first.

If you intend to travel on your acquired Irish passport (when gotten), then you would need to apply for a new ESTA on that passport.

You're completely overthinking this. Now look at this from a different perspective. You're Brazilian, and you have a valid 10 years US visa. Applied for at the US embassy.
Along the line, you gain a Portuguese citizenship, which can apply for a ESTA. You can obviously still travel on the Brazilian passport, which probably have 7 years visa left on it, instead of applying for a ESTA and only getting 2 years.
On the visa, you can stay up to 6 months, although your stay is usually determined at POE, however, on ESTA you can stay a max of 3 months per entry.

What you're not expected to do is to go back to the embassy and tell the US consular officer that, I need you to reassess my application as I've now become a citizen of Portugal!