• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    Payment of the bond does not guarantee a visa will be granted, but the amount will be refunded if the visa is denied or when a visa holder demonstrates they have complied with the terms of visa.

    I would bet money that they’re gonna “find ways” to not give a lot of those bonds back

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    Little Marco could have been a Republican presidential contender.

    Instead he’s now the face of Trump’s dictatorship and modern Republic卐nism.

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    US Government increasingly desperate for revenue as the economy slows and hostility towards middle-class income taxes expands.

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    The Tswana (people from Botswana) rarely travel. When I lived there, the government used to have massive drives to get people to apply for passports. It rarely worked. So this is a non-issue and arbitrary or either a badly scripted effort to do work on behalf of some diamond dealer. Nonetheless, the Tswana, more interested in partying than visiting USA will be unbothered. Also, there is a base involved and the EFF (volatile South African political party) have been pushing for it to be removed. This is just giving it impetus.

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      If you read the article, the 3rd paragraph has the countries listed out.

      Bhutan, Botswana, the Central African Republic, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Namibia and Turkmenistan.