Unlock and the American Jump Project have co-authored a letter in The Observer about the barriers faced by United States visa or ESTA applicants in the UK with police or criminal records. The letter notes that even applicants with minor convictions or cautions, that are eligible for DBS filtering under the ROA, face steep hurdles to travel or work in the US.

Surely a solution would be for the US embassies to apply the ROA on an ad hoc basis and allow UK applicants with filtered offences to travel via ESTA, as generally they would not have committed offences considered "crimes involving moral turpitude" by US authorities.