Hong Kong (SAR China) to United States visa requirements

Visa required. Hong Kong SAR ordinary passport holders need a U.S. B-1/B-2 visitor visa for tourism, family visits, medical treatment, or short business visits to the United States. Hong Kong is not on the main Visa Waiver Program list, so ESTA is not available for U.S. mainland travel. Hong Kong SAR ordinary passport holders need a visitor visa before travelling to the United States for tourism, family visits, medical treatment, or short business activity. The usual category is B-1/B-2. Hong Kong is not listed among the main Visa Waiver Program countries, so ESTA is not available for U.S. mainland travel; a separate Guam-CNMI Visa Waiver Program can cover certain Guam/Northern Mariana Islands trips with Form I-736. The current State Department B visitor visa application fee is US$185. The Hong Kong reciprocity table lists B-1, B-2, and B-1/B-2 visas with no issuance fee, multiple entries, and 120 months of validity. The visa lets the traveller request admission at a U.S. port of entry; CBP decides admission and records the allowed stay in I-94, commonly up to 6 months for B visitors. Hong Kong is on CBP's six-month passport-validity exemption list, so the passport must be valid for the intended U.S. stay. The HR-1 Visa Integrity Fee should not be included in the current payable total because the official State fee table does not list it and the Federal Register says the fee requires cross-agency coordination before future implementation.