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- 协会称，该计划更大范围推广可能损害美国经济和旅游行业
- 美国政府数据显示，50个试点国家的签证签发量在前10个月下降了83%
- 初步数据显示，截至6月，海外赴美的游客数量下降4.3%
- 行业组织表示，世界杯后政策应提振而非抑制国际旅游需求
纽约8月12日路透电——美国旅游协会表示，担忧特朗普政府的签证保证金计划可能会扩大至目前覆盖的数十个国家之外，该协会称此举将对旅游行业和美国经济造成负面影响。
美国国务院本月将2025年8月首次启动试点的签证保证金计划转为永久政策，允许领事官员要求来自50个国家的特定旅游和商务签证申请人缴纳最高2万美元的可退还保证金。
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“已经有传言称，该计划可能扩展到其他需要签证的国家，或许是所有需要签证的国家，”美国旅游协会主席杰夫·弗里曼对路透社表示，“这将对美国经济和旅游行业造成极其不利的影响。”
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美国政府称，在该计划实施的前10个月里，试点国家的签证签发量下降了83%，同时这些国家的签证超期滞留人数从2024财年的45488人降至试点期间的不足50人。
该计划覆盖的50个国家主要位于非洲，另有少量分布在亚洲、加勒比地区、中亚和拉丁美洲。美国政府表示，该计划旨在降低来自签证超期滞留率高或在信息共享、背景审查和文件安全方面存在缺陷的国家的国民的超期滞留问题。美国国务院称，新增国家名单只需提前15天通知即可。
根据该规定，如果旅客超期滞留或违反身份相关的其他条件，保证金将被没收。
弗里曼表示，尽管目前该计划覆盖的国家赴美游客占比不足2%，但美国旅游行业已经面临来自加拿大的游客量下滑25%的困境，而来自亚洲的游客量仅为2019年的50%。
根据美国国家旅游和旅游办公室的初步数据，截至6月，赴美的海外游客总量同比下降4.3%，其中6月恰逢足球世界杯期间，游客量同比下降1.8%。
弗里曼称，行业原本希望政策制定者能从世界杯中吸取经验，鼓励国际游客到访，而非出台抑制旅游的政策。
“如果我们在世界杯期间都无法实现游客量同比增长——事实也确实没有增长——那我们在普通的9月份又能指望什么呢？”
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Head of US travel association sounds alarm on potential expansion of visa bond program
2026-08-12T10:12:49.706Z / reuters.com
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- Summary
- Companies
- Broader rollout could hurt US economy and travel sector, association says
- US visa issuances in 50 pilot countries fell 83% in first 10 months, administration says
- Overseas arrivals fell 4.3% through June, preliminary data shows
- Industry says post-World Cup policy should boost, not deter, international demand
NEW YORK, Aug 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. Travel Association said it is concerned the Trump administration’s visa bond program could be broadened beyond the dozens of countries currently covered, a move it says would have a detrimental impact on the travel industry and economy.
The U.S. Department of State this month made permanent a visa bond program first launched as a pilot in August 2025, allowing consular officers to require certain tourist and business visa applicants from 50 countries to post refundable bonds of up to $20,000.
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“There are already rumblings of expanding this program to additional countries where visas are required, perhaps all countries where visas are required,” U.S. Travel Association President Geoff Freeman told Reuters. “That would have an extraordinarily detrimental effect on the U.S. economy, on the travel industry.”
The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The administration said visa issuances in the pilot countries fell 83% during the program’s first 10 months, while overstays from those countries dropped from 45,488 in fiscal 2024 to fewer than 50 during the pilot period.
The 50 countries covered by the program are predominantly in Africa, with a smaller number in Asia, the Caribbean, Central Asia and Latin America. The administration said the program is aimed at reducing visa overstays from nationals of countries with high overstay rates or deficiencies in information-sharing, vetting and document security. New countries can be added to the list with 15 days’ notice, the State Department said.
Under the rule, the bond can be forfeited if a traveler overstays or violates other conditions of their status.
Freeman said that while the countries currently covered by the program account for less than 2% of visitors to the United States, the U.S. travel industry is already nursing a 25% decline in travel from Canada, while travel from Asia is 50% of what it was in 2019.
Total overseas travel to the U.S. declined 4.3% year-to-date as of June, according to preliminary data from the National Travel and Tourism Office, including a 1.8% fall in June during the soccer World Cup.
Freeman said the industry had hoped policymakers would use lessons from the World Cup to encourage international visitation rather than adopt policies that discourage travel.
“If we can’t have year-over-year increases in travelers during the World Cup, which we didn’t, what the heck are we going to do in an average September?”
Reporting by Doyinsola Oladipo in New York; Editing by Jamie Freed
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