Rule 5 Aug 2025 compliance, administrative practice and procedure, aliens, immigration, foreign policy, state department, business travel, visa, passports and visas, bond requirements

🌍Visa Bond Pilot Program 2025

In this temporary final rule (TFR), the Department of State (the Department) announces the commencement of a 12-month long visa bond pilot program. Aliens applying for visas as temporary visitors for business or pleasure (B-1/B-2) and who are nationals of countries identified by the Department as having high visa overstay rates, where screening and vetting information is deemed deficient, or offering Citizenship by Investment, if the alien obtained citizenship with no residency requirement, may be subject to the pilot program. Consular officers may require covered nonimmigrant visa applicants to post a bond of up to $15,000 as a condition of visa issuance, as determined by the consular officers.

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Rule 11 Apr 2025 aviation, transportation, incorporation by reference, federal aviation administration, airspace, navigation (air), airspace regulation, bozeman, business travel

✈️Modification of Class D and E Airspace at Bozeman Airport

This action modifies the Class D surface area airspace, Class E airspace area designated as surface area, Class E airspace area designated as an extension to a Class D or Class E surface area, and the Class E airspace area extending upward from 700 feet above the surface of the earth at Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport, Bozeman, MT. These actions support the safety and management of visual flight rules (VFR) and instrument flight rules (IFR) operations at the airport.

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