People still want to go to the USA?
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
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They enshitified their country 💀
Cha-ching! There is nothing more to america than money. It's money all the way down.
The “visa integrity fee” applies to all visitors who need nonimmigrant visas, which includes tourists, business travelers and international students.
The fee is paid when the visa is issued, according to the provision.
Every international business meeting and conference just cancelled. Visits to Disney World plummet.
Who needs visas: https://brilliantmaps.com/visa-free-usa/
It's only to prevent poor people from South America, Africa, Eastern Europe/Asia. Europe/Japan/Australia is still free to go there.
Europeans still get harassed and randomly arrested. Even Canadians still does.
Apparently it's a big thing in South America to go to Disney World. Family of 4 just added $1k. It'll make you think twice.
When I flew back from Brazil last year to Orlando, almost the entire plane was families with kids, a lot of which were wearing Disney merch. I bet that flight will soon be much less full as $250 is currently almost R$1,400 per person. R$5,500 additional for a family of 4 is a LOT of money in Brazil.
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😂😂😂 they ticket mastered tourism.
It just keeps getting dumber.
Just forgot about the monopoly part
Still won't protect you from being whisked off the street, sent to an internment camp for months, then being deported to a 3rd country, and being banned from ever coming ~~van~~ back to the US.
The way things are going, US will enact an optional $1000 "anti-deportation" Visa fee for tourists that want added safeguards against kidnapping.
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My trip to the USA in 2016 was one of the most harrowing, dehumanising, and humiliating experiences of my life. And I'm talking specifically about the actual journey, i.e. after the already lengthy, painful process of acquiring a visa.
They treated me like a terrorist. I had to be escorted by 2 armed big dudes around the airport, and they flipped their shit when I reached for my phone to tell my brother it'd be a while before I can come out (just so he wouldn't worry.) They went through my bag and were handling everything SUPER gently, asking if it was "safe" for them to touch it.
They then confiscated my passport, walked off, and literally never returned it to me. I spent hours asking various members of airport staff what to do because I was screwed. Thankfully, eventually one of them found it in a drawer and gave it back to me.
I was a minor BTW. I have had no desire to repeat the experience since.
Honestly, I wish I was in your shoes because you get to leave this place.
I’m sure this will do wonders for the already declining US tourism industry.
Boy am I looking forward to the World Cup next year. If things keep trending this way it will be one of the most enjoyable cluster fucks I'll have ever witnessed.
Here’s a reminder that the Olympics was held in Nazi-controlled Berlin, and a team of 18 black athletes from the US thoroughly trounced Hitler’s “master race” talking points by sweeping the medals.
The black athletes then had to return to the US, where segregation was still the norm; many of them struggled to support themselves afterwards, because racism kept them from being hired into any decent jobs.
Anecdotally, they were treated better in Nazi Germany than 30's America.
Really tells it all.
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Yeah, that's gonna do wonders for tourism. Another 1000,- for a family of four.
So as a Canadian here is yet another reason to never visit the newest Oblast USA...
Russia sold Alaska to USA, and instead of buying it back, they took the whole USA to themselves. Now it’s called Amerika Oblast.
Canadian Citizen will not need Visa thou. So this does not apply.
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As well as spend 5-50000 days in custody anywhere from seatac to the Everglades concentration camp to the el Salvador concentration camp. The US occupied Guantanimo Bay facility is also on the table, though camp X ray is unlikely to be available
Even if they would pay me $250, I wouldn't want to go there.
For every traveler who does pay the $250 fee, this is enough to scare away a dozen more who would've spent hundreds or thousands. Good job!
ha ha
There it is. No one is exempt from getting grifted by the orange felon.
You can just use that $250 to get pegged by an escort and have a better experience.
250 for 10 mins work sounds like a good time. I should change career paths.
The headline is misleading.
- It's a refundable deposit
- It's not for all travelers but only for those on non-immigrant visas. Most notably, does not apply for ESTA travelers
what if i don't have another 250 bucks? Jail? or Venezuela?
You just don’t get a visa if you don’t have 250 bucks. Actually, you need a proof of funds to apply for the visa anyways
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