{"id":15649,"date":"2026-01-15T09:15:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/?p=15649"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:15:53","slug":"visa-bonds-expanded-impacting-families-and-short-term-academic-visits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/2026\/01\/15\/visa-bonds-expanded-impacting-families-and-short-term-academic-visits\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa Bonds Expanded Impacting Families and Short-Term Academic Visits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.e2ma.net%2Fclick%2F1s4zfk%2F5fh4iaf%2Floqxv8&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjillian.hautman%40vanderbilt.edu%7Cac7df9a3898a4cfc0f4308de544763f0%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C639040862767960984%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=LeHcMU2LzruqzKbnFHRh4jROEluo%2B2ApFJwtmy5rkFw%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-name=\"Department of State has expanded\" data-type=\"url\"><strong>Department of State expanded<\/strong><\/a> the visa bond program for certain nationalities, including Bangladesh, Nepal, and Nigeria, for B-1\/B-2 visas only. While F\/J students and scholars are not impacted, the policy may affect family visits and <a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.e2ma.net%2Fclick%2F1s4zfk%2F5fh4iaf%2F1grxv8&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cjillian.hautman%40vanderbilt.edu%7Cac7df9a3898a4cfc0f4308de544763f0%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C0%7C639040862768033425%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=aUkOgUvciibwyyZcx28Peb2l0xx0X0nM8aBUtqytcPg%3D&amp;reserved=0\" data-name=\"short-term academic travel\" data-type=\"url\"><strong>short-term academic travel<\/strong><\/a>. The additional requirements, including financial bonds, increase cost and complexity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of State expanded the visa bond program for certain nationalities, including Bangladesh, Nepal, and Nigeria, for B-1\/B-2 visas only. While F\/J students and scholars are not impacted, the policy may affect family visits and short-term academic travel. The additional requirements, including financial bonds, increase cost and complexity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8500,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","ACF":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/isss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}