US to increase visa fee from Jan 1

NEW DELHI: The United States will increase the fee for non-immigrant Machine Readable Visa (MRV) from $100 to $131 from January 1.

The applicants who possess the $100 receipt but failed in scheduling appointment before the prescribed date will be required to deposit a non refundable demand draft of $31 to match the difference, the embassy said in a release.
   
The fee adjustment is the first since 2002 and reflects some of the additional costs of administering non immigrant visas services. The hike also correlates with domestic inflation in India since the last revision.