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WASHINGTON, March 18 – President Donald Trump’s administration will require citizens from 50 countries to post bonds of $15,000 to apply for U.S. entry, a State \u200bDepartment official said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, \u200csaid 12 countries are being added to a list that already includes 38 other nations, largely in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The expanded visa bond program, which requires those foreign nationals to pay $15,000 \u200bfor a B1 or B2 visa for business and tourism, goes \u200binto effect on April 2. The aim is to prevent visitors \u2060from overstaying their visas, the official said.
The new nations included in the \u200bvisa bond program are Cambodia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Grenada, Lesotho, Mauritius, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, \u200bPapua New Guinea, Seychelles, and Tunisia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The official said bonds will be returned to visa recipients who return home in compliance with the terms of the visa and the bond, or \u200bdo not travel in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since taking office last January, Trump, a \u200bRepublican, has pursued a hard-line immigration policy, including an aggressive deportation drive, revocations of visas \u200cand \u2060green cards, and screens of social media posts and past speeches of immigrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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