{"id":3874,"date":"2025-08-08T06:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/08\/08\/what-is-a-visa-bond-heres-who-is-affected-by-the-u-s-state-departments-new-program\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T06:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:10:10","slug":"what-is-a-visa-bond-heres-who-is-affected-by-the-u-s-state-departments-new-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/08\/08\/what-is-a-visa-bond-heres-who-is-affected-by-the-u-s-state-departments-new-program\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a visa bond? Here&#8217;s who is affected by the U.S. State Department&#8217;s new program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. State Department announced a new rule implementing up to $15,000 bonds on tourism and business visa applicants from countries with historically higher rates of visa overstays. Here\u2019s who\u2019s affected by the change.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. State Department announced a new rule implementing up to $15,000 bonds on tourism and business visa applicants from countries with historically higher rates of visa overstays. Here\u2019s who\u2019s affected by the change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}