My friend applied for a travel visa so he can visit me for his vacation.....he paid 150 USA and that is alot of money in taiwan...but then the USA refused to give him the visa even after he paid. He went back to his travel agent and they said they wont refund...so he basically lost 150 dollars for nothing
what should he do?!?!
2007-09-02 03:46:51 · 17 answers · asked by elyse 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Swim to Mexico, and jump the border. That should be the easiest thing in the world.
2007-09-02 03:50:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
Not if you together with your passport also changed your first name, last name, date of birth, place of birth, parents' names, nationality, skin color, race, height, eye color, hair color, and some other markers. So if there is nothing the most advanced computer system on planet Earth -- the DHS database -- can match anymore, you should be fine. Otherwise, just two or three markers is enough to trigger your travel history and display your overstay, at which point you will be denied entry and barred for attempting to enter the United States with an expired visa and your passport will be stamped accordingly. Keep in mind, one day of overstay invalidated your previous visa, so if you overstayed, your visa is not valid anymore and attempting to enter without permission to enter is a crime in the United States. Probably not such a good idea.
2016-04-02 23:30:01 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a deposit to the travel agent. It's not refundable. It's not the agency's fault that a visa was denied. He won't get any application fees back from his visa application either.
2007-09-02 04:07:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's non-refundable. We have lots of things that have application fees and just because you pay it doesn't mean you get it. 150 bucks anywhere is alot of money. I agree a portion should be refunded at the least.....but hey....they didn't ask me. They charge people fees to apply for college....drag things on endlessly with immigration fees.....some even have fees now to apply for jobs as well as a host of other things in which there is no guarentee or no money refunded if your answer is no. Fair? I don't think so either......but I don't write the rules.....I just have to abide by them.
2007-09-02 06:15:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The fee is for submitting and processing the application - it's not a bribe for a guarantee of approval. The application was submitted and processed. Why should the money be refunded for services that were requested and performed? Just because you don't like the outcome, is no reason that the services requested and performed should now be free.
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2007-09-02 03:59:39 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Are you daft? It clearly states that the fee is an application fee, not a visa fee. You pay for the process, not the results. If he wanted to buy an acutual visa, on the black market, it would cost upwards of US $50,000. Then, when he was not let in, he could complain to the crooks!
2007-09-02 03:53:47 · answer #6 · answered by Euro Cop 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing he can do. Immigration fees are not refunded. They are application fees and there is no guarantee that it will be approved. He might be able to appeal the decision but he first has to find out why it was refused.
2007-09-02 04:05:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The $150 is an application fee. No guarantee if visa is denied or approved.
2007-09-02 03:57:08 · answer #8 · answered by Lovely 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Entry visia to the US are not guaranteed. The cost he paid was for the processing. The travel office accomplished the service it was charging for. The US processed the application (which costs the US taxpayer for the salary of the processors) and determined not to admit him. Game over.
2007-09-02 03:55:41 · answer #9 · answered by nam_miles 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
visa charges are not refundable, in Thailand its big business collecting all the money and then dening the visa, they say apply again and of course you have to pay the full visa change again.
2007-09-02 04:15:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Most visas carry an application fee, not a fee that you only pay if you are successful. I am sorry but, it is a nonreturnable fee.
2007-09-02 06:02:15 · answer #11 · answered by Mama~peapod 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋