Recently, the United States announced increased immigration fees that will apply to three of the most common nonimmigrant visa (NIV) applications.
The affected visas include the Non-Petition-based NIV, work visas and the E Category applicants and are slated to take effect on May 30.
In this data story, the media makes a mathematical analysis of the fee hike in dollar, cedi and percentage terms.
We also use relevant visualization to break down the figures relative to the old and revised rates.
The piece has the following subheadings:
a. Most affected visa categories
b. What the data says
c. US Dollar to Ghana cedi computation:
d. Relationship between fee difference and attendant % increase
e. How the US determines visa fees
f. Major highlights from the data story
g. Understanding Nonimmigrant visa categories