How to simultaneously tell the world "Get off my lawn" and "Go away, tourists and talented people" in yet another form of agro, xenophobic hostility.
42lux · 15m ago
Another way to profit from the tech visa slave scam. Maybe they can save some bucks for fuel if they let them row?
csomar · 2h ago
Given that cash is not suitable for these amounts, I don’t see a viable way for visitors to claim their money back unless they have a US bank account; which might be applicable to a select amount of business travelers.
This means that legitimate tourists will stop coming. And the bond essentially becomes the price of over staying your visa.
john01dav · 2h ago
While I don't trust this administration to do so (nor am I sure that they won't), there are absolutely ways that the US government can deposit money in foreign countries. As a base case, there are many companies that they could simply hire to do so (from those that mostly do remittances to those that do B2B transactions for international commerce).
ta12653421 · 1m ago
in the very last second, they could use the global DOD Community Bank, which is more or less the military's global financial network, having full banking license in most of the countries they are operating in, incl. connectivity by SWIFT etc.
namibj · 1h ago
Yeah, don't see why a simple SWIFT wire shouldn't be an option.
This means that legitimate tourists will stop coming. And the bond essentially becomes the price of over staying your visa.