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.
csomar · 1h 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 · 52m 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).
namibj · 3m 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.