{"id":78625,"date":"2025-08-16T07:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78625"},"modified":"2025-08-16T07:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T07:51:25","slug":"trumps-controversial-250-visa-fee-could-cost-the-us-economy-11-billion-as-tourists-stay-away-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/08\/16\/trumps-controversial-250-visa-fee-could-cost-the-us-economy-11-billion-as-tourists-stay-away-research-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s controversial $250 visa fee could cost the US economy $11 billion as tourists stay away, research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1KBVLz.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6&amp;x=1519&amp;y=109&amp;s=1345&amp;d=1813\" alt=\"The U.S. is on track to lose $12.5 billion in international visitor spending this year, according to a May 2025 report (Getty Images)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Research suggests President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s new<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/us-visa-integrity-fee-tourists-visitors-trump-b2792747.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">\u00a0$250 \u201cvisa integrity fee\u201d\u00a0<\/a>could cost the United States $11 billion \u2014 a much larger figure than the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/congressional-budget-office\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Congressional Budget Office<\/a> previously estimated, according to a report. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/travel\/news\/trump-s-controversial-250-visa-fee-could-cost-the-us-economy-11-billion-as-tourists-stay-away-research-finds\/ar-AA1KBT8m?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=ac198c0a46874840af4b29b4d25d14f8&amp;ei=16\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Research suggests President\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s new\u00a0$250 \u201cvisa integrity fee\u201d\u00a0could cost the United States $11 billion \u2014 a much larger figure than the\u00a0Congressional Budget&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Donald-Trump.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78626,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78625\/revisions\/78626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}