{"id":986623,"date":"2026-01-20T10:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986623"},"modified":"2026-01-20T10:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T05:18:23","slug":"us-to-require-bangladeshis-to-pay-visa-bond-of-up-to-15000-for-b1-b2-visas-from-january-21-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/20\/us-to-require-bangladeshis-to-pay-visa-bond-of-up-to-15000-for-b1-b2-visas-from-january-21-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"US to require Bangladeshis to pay visa bond of up to $15,000 for B1\/B2 visas from January 21, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Embassy in Dhaka has announced that from January 21, 2026, Bangladeshi citizens approved for B1\/B2 (business and tourist) visas will be required to post a visa bond ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 before the visa is issued.<\/p>\n<p>The requirement applies only after a visa is approved by a consular officer and does not apply to holders of valid B1\/B2 visas issued before January 21, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Embassy in Dhaka has announced that from January 21, 2026, Bangladeshi citizens approved for B1\/B2 (business and tourist) visas will be required to post a visa bond ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 before the visa is issued. The requirement applies only after a visa is approved by a consular officer and does not apply to holders of valid B1\/B2 visas issued before January 21, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}