{"id":489,"date":"2023-05-31T11:28:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T11:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2023-05-31T11:28:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T11:28:59","slug":"usa-visa-fee-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/31\/usa-visa-fee-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Visa Fee Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Effective 17 June 2023, the U.S. Department of State has increased certain nonimmigrant visa (NIV) application processing fees. The USDS has increased nearly 15% of nonimmigrant visa fees.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Applicants will have to pay $185 instead of $160 (current NIV fee) for non-petition NIVs such as student and exchange visitor visas (F1) and regular visitor visas or visitor visas for business or tourism (B1\/B2s).<\/li><li>Applicants applying for certain petition-based nonimmigrant visas for temporary workers such as H, L, O, P, Q, and R categories will have to pay $205 instead of $190 (current NIV fee).<\/li><li>The application fee under the E category, which is applied to a treaty trader, treaty investor, and treaty applicant in a specialty occupation, has increased from $205 to $315.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective 17 June 2023, the U.S. Department of State has increased certain nonimmigrant visa (NIV) application processing fees. The USDS has increased nearly 15% of nonimmigrant visa fees.&nbsp; Applicants will have to pay $185 instead of $160 (current NIV fee) for non-petition NIVs such as student and exchange visitor visas (F1) and regular visitor visas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vinodgambtoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}