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- The US President has decided to sign a memorandum which recommends severe sanctions on countries with high rates of visa overstays in the United States.
- The memorandum recommends placing travel restrictions on citizens of the 20 countries who have higher than 10% visa overstay rate.Under such a plan,the US would put countries on notice if a significant number of their citizens are overstaying their visas in the U.S. If the rates do not change,future visas would be harder to obtain and more limited in scope.
- Further,the development which may hit Indian students is the direction by US President to impose admission bonds as a means of improving compliance with the terms and conditions of non-immigrant visas.
- However,it does not imposes any immediate restrictions but it calls upon US agencies to provide recommendations or status reports to US President within 120 days.
- In 2013,UK had also contemplated a security bond of GBP 3,000 for visa applicants from six countries including India.After protests including from the Indian government this plan was dropped.
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