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If your ESTA authorization is denied, you will unfortunately be denied admission to the United States if traveling under the Visa Waiver program. This will result in being returned to your country of origin (or the country in which you commenced travel, if it is not your country of origin and you hold a round-trip ticket) by the same carrier upon which you have already traveled.
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If your application has been denied, you can still proceed with your travel plans by applying to the standard visa process at your closest US Embassy or Consulate. ESTA only evaluates your eligibility for the Visa Waiver program, not for overall travel to the United States, and a denial for ESTA authorization does not constitute a denial of entry to the United States.
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Unless something in your circumstances has changed sufficiently to impact your traveler status, any reapplication to ESTA will give you the same result: a denial of the application to travel under the Visa Waiver program. It is extremely inadvisable, as well, to offer false or incomplete information to the ESTA process in order to change a result: this will revoke your eligibility for the Visa Waiver program permanently.
The best course of action, if your ESTA authorization is denied, is to apply to your closest US Embassy or Consulate to acquire a non-immigrant visa.