Obama and Visa fee
Jan 21, 2009 | 5:32 pm
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Obama and Visa fee
Is it likely that the Obama administration will lower the visa fee from countries like China, Brazil and Chile? If so, when might that happen, and how long would you expect it to take for those countries to reciprocate?
Jan 21, 2009 | 10:00 pm
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Not sure why you'd think Obama will lower the Visa fee. I guess you can spin a theory that because he lived briefly overseas and is more interested in "pleasing the world" he'll see the "error of our ways" and lower the US entry fee.
Personally, I wouldn't bet on it.
Personally, I wouldn't bet on it.
Jan 22, 2009 | 11:10 am
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Jan 22, 2009 | 11:25 am
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Don't bet on the law changing. Except as with all things, the fees are likely to go up over time, not down.
Jan 22, 2009 | 11:29 am
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Doubt it. I think Congress first set this one as part of a budget-balancing item (so he`ll have to ask them to reduce it) a long time ago and also as part of the user pays doctrine. Canada and the U.K. have bought into this doctrine.
Jan 22, 2009 | 12:25 pm
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We do a lot more checking on visas than most countries do. Of course our visas are expensive.
Jan 22, 2009 | 7:02 pm
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No matter how much our new president dislikes the DHS, he's not going to make it disappear overnight. Moreover, I couldn't imagine (in my wildest dreams) that he'd offload any more administrative costs onto US tax payers.
Jan 24, 2009 | 11:54 am
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Better to travel to China now. year 2005 RMB/dollar 8.2/1 now 5.84/1 edited (6.84)/1
According to Obama their currency is manipulated, so might adjust to 4 or less/1.
So even if visa fee US to China dropped in half, total cost for a trip to China would increase due to the exchange rate change.
According to Obama their currency is manipulated, so might adjust to 4 or less/1.
So even if visa fee US to China dropped in half, total cost for a trip to China would increase due to the exchange rate change.
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Jan 24, 2009 | 11:59 am
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Better to travel to China now. year 2005 RMB/dollar 8.2/1 now 5.84/1
According to Obama their currency is manipulated, so might adjust to 4 or less/1.
So even if visa fee US to China dropped in half, total cost for a trip to China would increase due to the exchange rate change.
According to Obama their currency is manipulated, so might adjust to 4 or less/1.
So even if visa fee US to China dropped in half, total cost for a trip to China would increase due to the exchange rate change.
Jan 24, 2009 | 12:20 pm
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Jan 25, 2009 | 1:01 am
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From all the analysts and pundits I've been reading, most expect the relationship between US and China to be more rocky with the new administration - from trade deficit figure, food safety, to human rights records...
I don't know why some of you here think it'd be the opposite.
I don't know why some of you here think it'd be the opposite.
Jan 25, 2009 | 9:43 am
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From all the analysts and pundits I've been reading, most expect the relationship between US and China to be more rocky with the new administration - from trade deficit figure, food safety, to human rights records...
I don't know why some of you here think it'd be the opposite.
I don't know why some of you here think it'd be the opposite.
a Chinese woman. Not that this in itself makes a difference, but I believe its
unique to a US president.