State Department announces program requiring some foreign visitors to pay bonds of up to $15,000

[Crazy Cat 44,721]

Interesting and could spread to more countries in the future.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/state-department-announces-program-requiring-foreign-visitors-pay-bond-rcna223205

 

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/countries-subject-to-visa-bonds.html

 

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Visa Bond Compliance

The full visa bond amount will be returned to the applicant if the applicant complies with all the terms of the nonimmigrant visa status and with the terms of the visa bond, which are set out on the bond form (Department of Homeland Security’s Form I-352 Immigration Bonds) and in the Federal Register.  The bond will be canceled and the bond money will be automatically returned in the following circumstances:

• The visa holder departs from the United States on or before the date to which he or she is authorized to remain in the United States; or

• The visa holder does not travel to the United States before the expiration of the visa; or

• The visa holder applies for and is denied admission at the U.S. port of entry."

Edited 20 hours ago by Crazy Cat

[mam521 2,610]

Not targeted at all...🙄

 

I get it - reduce visa overstay, but wasn't this administration just crying that tourism is down and the financial impacts are being felt?  Las Vegas is REALLY hurting.  This certainly isn't going to help if it expands further.  

 

I'm surprised "mean and nasty Canadians" aren't on that list, too 🤭

Edited 19 hours ago by mam521

[Boiler 47,569]

I have seen over the years some people who have been refused a B comment  that they would like this option, and USCs who want to get a Visitor Visa for usually overseas Girlfriends want this option.

 

Made me wonder how much? After all say you wanted to Immigrate from say India.seems a long and expensive journey, would $15k be a better bet than paying Coyotes?

 

Not sure how many from Malawi and Zambia would be heading to LV, strikes me that there problem is similar to the Ski resorts near me, they have priced out a big chunk of their Customer base and wonder why the numbers drop, there was a big surge immediately after COVID but that has ggone away.

[JeanneAdil 7,120]

 

reading the article says these 2 countries are not the ones with the biggest overstays

 

also does not say how the bond will be returned / apply and wait and wait???

 

why is congress not taking charge of immigration ?

Seems the only thing that body can vote on is higher wages for themselves

 

The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is the body of U.S. law that governs immigration and citizenship. It establishes the requirements for entering the country, obtaining citizenship, and the rights and responsibilities of immigrants. The INA is the primary source of immigration law in the United States. 

[Crazy Cat 44,721]

7 minutes ago, JeanneAdil said:

Seems the only thing that body can vote on is higher wages for themselves

I don't recall the "Big Beautiful Bill" raising their wages...

[JeanneAdil 7,120]

1 hour ago, Crazy Cat said:

I don't recall the "Big Beautiful Bill" raising their wages...

i am old enough to remember 2009 when they voted pay raise for themselves when we were in a depression/ this is my reference

 

The Great Recession of 2007-2009 was the most severe economic downturn in the United States since the Great Depression of the 1930s

[.yana 623]

6 hours ago, mam521 said:

but wasn't this administration just crying that tourism is down and the financial impacts are being felt?

These are not the tourists he wants.

[Boiler 47,569]

5 minutes ago, .yana said:

These are not the tourists he wants.

Are the ones who forget to go home Tourists?

[Lemonslice 5,273]

I wonder if they'll return the bonds of all those "changed my mind at the baggage carousel" people...

[Crazy Cat 44,721]

3 minutes ago, Lemonslice said:

I wonder if they'll return the bonds of all those "changed my mind at the baggage carousel" people...

Nope.  If they violate their non-immigrant visas, the US Treasury increases.

20 minutes ago, .yana said:

These are not the tourists he wants.

He wants those tourists who will return home before they overstay.

[PGA 334]

4 hours ago, Lemonslice said:

I wonder if they'll return the bonds of all those "changed my mind at the baggage carousel" people...

Maybe as many as those who visit and and then "change their mind" and decide to AOS. 

[TBoneTX 47,594]

Things would be so much simpler if "no AOS from tourist visas, period" were the law.