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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here are more details about Vance and family’s summer vacation plans while tourists in the opposite direction to the US has plummeted due to Trump’s new policies and tariffs.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/20/jd-vance-to-spend-summer-family-holiday-in-the-cotswolds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other[/quote]

What they missed is that they are going to start imposing a new $250 "visa integrity fee" (yes it's "reimbursable" but the process for obtaining a refund sounds dubious so good luck with that). Additionally, over the weekend they further tightened the requirements for interview waiver. A significant amount of people no longer qualify and will now need to have an interview. In some locations, the wait time for an interview is already over a year. Between the new fee which pushes the cost of a single visa to over $400 and interview wait times being pushed out a 2 or 3 years.... people just won't come here anymore (which is likely the point). They will go vacation in Europe.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/visa-integrity-fee-what-to-know-about-new-travel-fee-to-enter-the-us-.html

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/interview-waiver-update-july-25-2025.html[/quote]

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