The State Department is expanding its visa bond program to apply to a total of 50 countries on April 2 and will require foreign nationals from these countries to post a bond of $15,000 before receiving B1 or B2 visas for business and tourism in the United States. The bond will be returned to visa recipients who return home in compliance with the terms of the visa and the bond or does not travel.
Preventing Illegal Visa Overstays: The visa bond program has already proven effective at drastically reducing the number of visa recipients who overstay their visas and illegally remain in the United States.
- Nearly 1,000 foreigners have been issued visas under the program, and 97% of bonded travelers have returned home from the United States on time.
- By contrast, in Biden’s last year in office, more than 44,000 visitors from the 50 current Visa Bonds countries overstayed.
- The State Department’s April 2 action will apply the visa bond policy to 12 additional nations.
- The Department may continue to place Visa Bonds on countries based on a range of immigration risk factors.
Saving Taxpayer Dollars: The expanded visa bond program saves the American taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
- It costs the U.S. taxpayer over $18,000 on average to remove an alien illegally present in the United States.
- The Department of State is saving U.S. taxpayers up to $800 million per year that would otherwise be required to remove these aliens who overstay.
Nations Included in the Visa Bond Program:
The new countries included in the visa bond program are Cambodia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Grenada, Lesotho, Mauritius, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Seychelles, and Tunisia.
These countries join 38 nations that are already included in the visa bond program. Those countries are Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Botswana, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Fiji, Gabon, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Mauritania, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Togo, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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Up to this day, other than for Health reasons, I can’t see why people kill themselves to go to America. Someone help me understand and correct me if am wrong.
You can’t open a bank account unless you’re an American, U can’t buy house and land. And if you don’t have any overseas family , you’ll probably stay at a hotel or some run down motel or some basement.
What is it about America why everyone wants to go there.
What has America done for Antigua and Barbuda really?
@Shadow. As you asked, I will correct you since you are wrong.
Non-US citizens can legally open US based bank accounts and can legally purchase homes and land since there are no federal restrictions prohibiting foreign ownership.
@ Shadow,
There is a video with Gaston Browne which answers your question.
These are thousands of US citizens whose mother got a visa and had their babies in the US.
Where have you been if you are not aware of such situations?
American television tends to present the country as a land of milk and honey; however, my own experience was very different, and I found it to be one of the most disappointing places I’ve visited. The rest of the world has more to offer.
More lies again. This has nothing to do with anyone overstaying. It’s a way to deter people from these counries from traveling to the US. People need to find other places to vacation.
One thing this visa restriction will bring some semblance and better regulations, of Antigua & Barbuda slack immigration system.
The United States of America is no different, than any other Nation upon this planet which HUEmans have inhabited, developed, lived, thrived and call home; as in, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Speaking from personal experiences and one whose family roots have being migrating for centuries around this planet, many of us and our offsprings who have for the most part settled in the USA for the past 75 years or there abouts have had the opportunity to become federal judges, engineers, doctors, business entrepreneurs, stars in the entertainment and fashion industries, contruction etc.
Just like anything which we as HUEmans are immersed in, in the Essence of nature’s ether…
Everything is for every body, everybody is not for every thing!
Again, regardless of what negatives come with these revised American foreign policies, there’s a silver lining in the dark clouds, and it’s…
A…the semblance and proper directions which it will bring to the Nation slack and lacks immigration system.
B…the fact that regardless of where you reside, at home or abroad, you gotta do for you. You Antiguans must hold those who you selected to manage your affairs, in public offices are held to #level_up, higher standards of accountability. If many of you who’re berating Donald Trump for being racist, facist, or whatever, please pay attention and get this straight, Americans are not just playing possums and giving him a free pass. Many have taken and is still taking the fight to him, fist to cuffs, and he’s losing more battles than he’s winning. Do the same to the poliTRICKtans in Antigua, Barbuda & REDONDA.
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
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In one of the greatest movies that was ever made (Kingdom of Heaven) the young knight asked the king of persia (Saladin) what did Jerusalem worth when he captured it, and the Sultan turn to the knight and said “everything”.
We are what we are by what we fight for, not by what we accept.
Some things on this earth are worth the fight, and life and liberty and the freedom to speak your mind are two of them..and even though some do not see the power of those two concepts, when they asked ” why do people kill themselves to go to the US” well folks, at least the great Babylon as they may call the US, thrive for those two very important concepts in our purpose here on earth.
Hate the beast all you want, he’s not a perfect beast by any stretch, but a foundation was set in this country hundreds of years ago, and talk all you want, it was a solid foundation.
No man can build his house on sand and that house survives..The US was built on solid grounds..it’s deeper than just a paycheck and ice in your refrigerator..
Think about that.. can we say that about many other nations, including our own African nations?
Think people, think. @Ras. Again, respect my brother, respect.
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