The FY2027 President's Budget requests $158.8M for Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) Fee, within Homeland Security's Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) Fee account. That is up 8.4% on the FY2026 figure of $146.5M, which is a continuing-resolution annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $56.5M |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | $146.5M |
| FY2027 | request | $158.8M |
The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure — the rate a continuing resolution funds at, not an enacted appropriation. The two are different numbers and are not interchangeable. Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Homeland Security discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Homeland Security's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) Fee 25.7 Operation & Maintenance of Equipment U.S. Customs and Border Protection Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) Fee Explanation of Non Pay Cost Drivers The Working Families Tax Cut Act (Pub. Law 119-21) and economic assumptions for FY 2027 are expected to increase overall ESTA collections. Contributions: This non pay cost driver reflects anticipated carryover for this fee account. Other Services from Non-Federal Sources: CBP funds contractual support to facilitate oversight and tracking of programs. Equipment: Equipment for the ESTA program includes equipping CBP Officers (CBPOs) who work in the National Targeting Center, as well as providing servers and software to support the programs. Other Costs: CBP incurs several additional non pay costs in support of the frontline activities associated with this user fee. These other costs include transportation and travel requirements for training and operations, supplies and materials for office management within CBP's program offices, and portions of indirect costs which are associated with the fee activity workloads. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Land Border Inspection Fee
Extracted from Customs and Border Protection, p. 8. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
Contracts funded by this line
4 linked contracts. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.
| Contract | Vendor | Confidence | Obligated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 70B06C22F00001058 last action FY2025 | ELEVATION, LTD. | Medium confidence | $5.4M |
| 70B03C25F00000956 last action FY2025 | ELEVATION, LTD. | Medium confidence | $2.4M |
| 70B03C24F00000880 last action FY2025 | ELEVATION, LTD. | Medium confidence | $1.9M |
| HSBP1016J00302 last action FY2020 | THE MITRE CORPORATION | Medium confidence | $1.0M |
Confidence mix · 4 medium
Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.
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