2007 Press Releases
Press Release
U.S. Nonimmigrant visa application fee increases to $131 as of January 1, 2008
Yaounde, December 27, 2007
Effective January 1, 2008, the application fee for a U.S. nonimmigrant visa will increase from $100 to $131. This increase allows the Department of State to recover the costs of security and other enhancements to the non-immigrant visa application process. Additional issuance fees, which vary according to the type and duration of the visa, remain unchanged. The U.S. Embassy and the Government of Cameroon are currently discussing options for reducing or eliminating these issuance fees, to promote travel and exchange between our countries.
The Department of State is required by law to recover the cost of processing nonimmigrant visas through the collection of the Machine-Readable Visa application fee. Because of new security-related costs, new information technology systems, and inflation, the $100 Machine-Readable Visa fee is lower than the actual cost of processing nonimmigrant visas. In fact, the $100 fee was already lower than the cost of processing nonimmigrant visas when the fee was reviewed as a part of the cost of service study in 2004.
For further information, please contact the Information Section of the U.S. Embassy, Yaounde, Tel 2220-1500, x4162 or x4273.