Monday 04/Aug/2025 – 08:24 PM
The US State Department has prepared plans to impose amounts of money amounting to 15,000 dollars on some tourism and work visas, as part of a 12 -month experimental program.
The program targets visitors from countries in which rates exceeded the permissible residence period, according to a draft of a temporary decision that is scheduled to be published in the federal registry on August 5.
American visas
This procedure is reviving an initiative launched for the first time in November 2020, during the previous administration of US President Donald Trump, which was aimed at imposing a guarantee on visitors from about 24 countries – most of them in Africa – exceeded the rates of visas exceeding 10%.
The document stated that the experimental program will allow the Ministry to assess the possibility of applying the financial guarantee system in coordination with the Ministry of Treasury and the Ministry of Internal Security, with the aim of ensuring the commitment of visitors to the visa conditions and leaving them on time.
It is scheduled to announce the list of countries covered by the program at least 15 days before it enters into force, provided that its application begins 15 days after the publication of the regulatory rules in the federal registry.
