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The US State Department has raised the price of most visas for foreign visitors to the US by more than 30%.
From January 1, it will go up from US$100 to US$131. A statement said the increase is to help cover increased security measures, especially collecting 10 fingerprints, a statement said.
“Because of new security-related costs, new information technology systems, and inflation, the US$100 Machine-Readable Visa fee is lower than the actual cost of processing non-immigrant visas,” it said.
“In fact, the US$100 fee was already lower than the cost of processing non-immigrant visas when the fee was reviewed as a part of the cost of service study in 2004.”
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