{"id":8970,"date":"2010-05-26T13:29:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T17:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=8970"},"modified":"2010-05-26T13:29:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T17:29:26","slug":"application-fees-for-u-s-non-immigrant-visas-to-increase-on-june-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=8970","title":{"rendered":"Application Fees for U.S. Non-Immigrant Visas to Increase on June 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">May 26 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The U.S. Embassy in Freetown wishes to inform applicants that, effective June 4, 2010, the application fee for U.S. non-immigrant visas will increase. The total new MRV fee for H, L, O, P, Q, and R visas will be $150. For E visas $390, and K visas $350.\u00c2\u00a0 All other categories, including B-1\/B-2, F, J, will increase to $140.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 All prospective applicants who have paid the current fee of $131 Sierra Leone Commercial Bank Limited will be required to pay a differential, either at the US Embassy Freetown cashier or at Sierra Leone Commercial Bank Limited on Siaka Stevens Street.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The U.S. Department of State is required by law to recover the cost of processing non-immigrant visas through the collection of the Machine-Readable Visa (MRV) application fee. Due to new security-related costs, new information technology systems, and inflation, the present fees are now lower than the actual cost of processing non-immigrant visas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The U.S. Embassy in Freetown looks forward to continuing to serve our customers in Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<address>US Embassy, Freetown<\/address>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 26 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The U.S. Embassy in Freetown wishes to inform applicants that, effective June 4, 2010, the application fee for U.S. non-immigrant visas will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1221,1],"tags":[3212,3213],"class_list":["post-8970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","category-uncategorized","tag-us-non-immigrant-visa-fees","tag-us-visa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}