US could demand thousands in bonds for tourist visas
A government declaration said the US may require thousands of dollars worth of bonds for some tourists and business visas under a pilot program launched within two weeks.
The program gives us the authority to bring bonds to consular officers from a federal registration notification, to visitors from high visa overloaded countries to USD $ 15,000 (A23.200).
In the notification, bonds can be applied to people from countries that are thought to be insufficient to scan and veterinary information.
President Donald Trump made the cracking on illegal immigration into a focus of the presidency, increased resources to secure the border, and arrested people in the United States illegally.
In June, 19 countries’ citizens issued a travel ban that prevented the United States for national security reasons.
Trump’s migration policies led to some visitors to jump to the United States. Transatlantic flight tickets fell to the rates seen before the COVİD-19 spandem in May, and from Canada and Mexico to the USA fell 20 percent annually.
The government said that the new visa program would take about one year after entering into force on 20 August. Consular officials will have three options for visa applicants subject to bonds: 5,000 USD (A7,750 $), USD 10,000 USD (A15.500 $) or $ 15,000 (A23.200 $), but generally at least $ 10,000 (A15.500).
A similar pilot program said that in November 2020, Trump was launched in the last months of his first term in office, but was not fully implemented due to a decline in global travel associated with Pandema.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs could not predict the number of visa applicants that could be affected by the amendment. Many of the countries targeted by Trump’s travel ban, Chad, Eritrea, Haiti, Myanmar and Yemen, including high visa is overloaded.
According to the US Customs and Border Protection data since the 2023 fiscal year, a large number of countries had high rates in Africa, including Burundi, Djibouti and Togo.
