UNITED STATES $15,000 VISA BOND REQUIREMENT APPLIES TO ALL CITIZENSHIP BY INVESTMENT STATES, ACCORDING TO TEMPORARY FINAL RULE PUBLISHED TODAY, AUGUST 5, 2025

                    Source: DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 22 CFR Part 41, Public Notice 12783.

Inasmuch as we have been hearing reports that certain Eastern Caribbean government agencies and government-controlled media are asserting that the five Eastern Caribbean states (St Kitts & Nevis, Antigua, Dominica, Saint Lucia & Grenada) are to be exempt from the new American Visa bond requirement, because they were not specifically named at a U.S. press conference, please see the attached portion of the Temporary Final Rule, issued and published today, which puts to rest any questions regarding whether they are included.

"Second, in another portion of the Temporary Final Rule, entitled 'Parameters of the Pilot Program,' it lists the specific deficiencies that nationals of countries with CBI programs cause them to be included: Second, the Department finds that nationals of countries where vetting and screening are deficient are nationals for whom there are concerns about overstay risks because the Department has difficulty obtaining full background and criminal history information. Third, nationals of a country with CBI who obtained citizenship with no residency requirement may have insufficient personal history within or connections to their country of nationality for sufficient screening and vetting checks to be conducted." DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 22 CFR Part 41, Public Notice 12783.

Either of these two entries in the Rule are sufficient to conclude that ALL the five Eastern Caribbean states are definitely included in the Visa Bond requirement. We take offense to the manipulation of the truth by government forces in the Caribbean that are determined to misinform their own constituents about the truth, when the corrupt CBI programs they mismanaged are the direct and proximate cause of the Bond program. See my prior article: RESPONDING TO CARIBBEAN CBI CORRUPTION, MONEY LAUNDERING AND FRAUD, UNITED STATES TO IMPOSE FEES OF UP TO $15,000 TO ENTER AMERICA https://rijock.blogspot.com/2025/08/responding-to-caribbean-cbi-corruption.html