I'm an immigrant in Canada do I need US visa to use connecting flight from Canada to Japan&Philippines& v / v?

Answer 1

If you want to enter the US even for a connecting flight, you need a US visa.

Answer 2

You will need a visitors visa to transit the U.S. unless you have a valid passport from one of the 27 countries that participates in the Visa Waiver Program.

Here's a list of the countries: Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom., . The United Kingdom refers only to British citizens who have the unrestricted right of permanent abode in the United kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man); it does not refer to British overseas citizens, British dependent territories' citizens, or citizens of British Commonwealth countries.

All VWP travelers, regardless of age or type of passport used, must present individual machine-readable passports. In addition, depending on when VWP travelers’ passports were issued, other passport requirements apply:

* Machine-readable passports issued or renewed/extended on or after 10/26/06 – requires integrated chip with information from the data page.