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  "textContent": "The United States is expanding its controversial visa bond policy from April 2, requiring applicants from 50 countries to deposit up to $15,000 when applying for business or tourist visas.\n\nHowever, Pakistanis are NOT included in this visa bond list, at least for now.\n\nThe new expansion adds 12 countries, including Cambodia, Ethiopia, and Tunisia, to an existing list of 38 nations, most of them in Africa.\n\nEarlier lists also included countries like Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Nepal, but Pakistan has not been named in any of the visa bond program lists so far.\n\nThe visa bond ​program has ⁠reduced the number of people who overstay their visas, the State Department official said.\n\nPreviously, 38 nations were included in the list that the US is bringing for a fresh wave of the US visa rules. These countries include Algeria, Antigua, Angola, and Bangladesh, Barbuda, Benin, Botswana, Cabo Verde, Burundi, Bhutan, Central ⁠African ​Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Fiji, Gabon, ​The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Mauritania, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Tuvalu, Senegal, Tanzania, ​Togo, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Tonga, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.\n\nThe post Will Pakistanis face the $15,000 US visa bond from April 2? appeared first on HUM News.",
  "title": "Will Pakistanis face the $15,000 US visa bond from April 2?"
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