The State Department says the visa integrity fee was created “to support the administration’s priorities of strengthening immigration enforcement, deterring visa overstays and funding border

The United States will require international visitors to pay a new “visa integrity fee,” according to the Trump administration’s recently enacted domestic policy bill.

The fee is set to apply to visitors requiring non-immigrant visas to enter the US. Countries such as Japan and Singapore which are part of the US visa waiver programme are not required to pay the new fee.