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Visa Reciprocity Chart for Australia:
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Hi, I'm John Khosravi, Managing Attorney of the JQK Immigration Law Firm
and I wanted to put out this News Alert for Australian Citizens because of a massive increase in the Visa issuance fees associated with several Visa categories that Australians obtain to come to the United States. Now, the Visa fees are in addition to what you pay just to get the Visa interview. These are things that happen after the Visa is issued, or when they plan to issue it and they're based on reciprocity charts and reciprocity schedules.
And what are these? Well, for example, if a U.S. citizen wants to go to Australia and Australia charges an additional $25 Fee for an American Citizen to go there, the U.S. Reciprocates it and charges $25 as well for Australian Citizens coming to the United States. Now that number was just made up but the fact is a lot of countries have these situations, in particular, Australia had such high numbers and fees for U.S. Citizens to do certain work categories there, and the U.S. had not updated its reciprocity charts and schedules until recently when President Trump made the order for that to happen and quietly this was changed on December 23rd [2019] for Australian Citizens, and if you go to the Visa reciprocity chart for Australia you will see a massive hike in certain categories. For example, for the E-Visa Category, E-1 and E-2 Treaty Traders and Treaty Investors, the fee now is three thousand [five] hundred plus for Ls it went from $105 to $1,700+, and the H-1B and H-4 categories are now almost $1,300. Luckily. The E-3 category, the specific Visa category for Australian Citizens, was not changed. But what does this mean? Well, if you're a family of four and you're on an E-2 Visa coming to the United States, each of you has to spend more than $3,500 to get that Visa. In addition to all the other fees associated with the Visa, the Attorney and the investment that's related to the E-2 Visa. So be mindful of this if you're traveling outside to get your Visa, these fees will apply to you as of now and if you didn't have plans to travel or you were just getting the Visa just to get it, if the fees are a problem right now, you might as well hold off on it and just do Extension of Status in the United States if you're not going travel, but if you're going to do a decision like that, whether it's an Extension of Status instead of doing a Visa issuance, make sure to consult with an attorney, if you want to contact our office, my email is info@jqklaw.com or give me a quick call at (818) 934-1561, to get more information like this please feel free to like, follow,
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