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President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has introduced a new temporary travel rule which requires citizens of 15 African countries visiting the US to post bonds of up to $15,000.
The African countries affected are Angola, Burkina Faso, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Libya, Mauritania, Sudan, Sao Tome and Principe, Cape Verde, Burundi.
The new rule is expected to take effect from December 24, 2020.
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The six-month pilot program – which targets visitor and business visas – will act as a deterrence to those who overstay their visas, the U.S. state department said.
Outgoing President Donald Trump, who lost a re-election bid earlier in November, made restricting immigration a central part of his four-year term in office.
President-elect Joe Biden, a Democrat, has however pledged to reverse many of the Republican president’s immigration policies, but untangling hundreds of changes could take months or years.
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The visa bond rule targets countries whose nationals had an “overstay rate” of 10% or higher in 2019 and will now be required to pay a refundable bond of $5,000, $10,000 or $15,000.
While those nations had higher rates of overstays, they sent relatively few travellers to the U.S.
