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Al Jazeera Staff

Tourists from Malawi and Zambia are first to face $15,000 visa bonds in US

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio gestures as he boards a flight on July 11 [Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP]

The United States Department of State has announced the first foreign citizens to be subject to bonds of up to $15,000 should they visit the country on tourist visas.

On Tuesday, Zambia and Malawi, both African countries, were the inaugural entries on a list of countries that the State Department will subject to visa bonds.

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