15 African nations have been imposed $15,000 visa bond by the exiting administration of US President, Donald Trump, on Monday, November 23, 2020, issued a brand new short-term visa rule that requires vacationer and enterprise vacationers from 15 African nations and others to pay a bond of virtually $15,000 plus the visa costs, which ranges from $16 to $300, to have the ability to go to the USA.
Based mostly on TheCable, the US State Division talked about the visa bond pilot programme, anticipated to take influence from December 24 and end on June 24, 2021, is targeted at nations whose residents have elevated costs of overstaying B-2 visas for vacationers and B-1 visas for enterprise vacationers.
The Trump administration talked about the six-month pilot program objectives to test the feasibility of amassing such bonds and might perform a diplomatic deterrence to overstaying the visas. Subsequently, overstay places vital stress on Division of Justice and Division of Homeland Security.
The visa bond rule will enable U.S. consular officers to request vacationer and enterprise vacationers from nations whose nationals had an overstay payment of 10% and above in 2019 to pay a refundable bond of $5,000, $10,000, or $15,000.
The nations whose vacationer and enterprise vacationers fall into this class and subjected to the bond requirements are 24 nations, along with 15 African nations. Whereas these nations had elevated costs of overstays, they dispatched comparatively fewer vacationers to America.
The nations embody Afghanistan, Angola, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cape Verde, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa), Djibouti, Eritrea, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Laos, Liberia, Libya, Mauritania, Papua New Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen
Nigerian vacationers escaped paying the momentary visa rule, as their whole ranking was underneath the brink of 10% and above overstaying payment.
