Trump’s New Visa Fee Could Set Canadian Visitors Back Hundreds

Travelling To The U.S. From Canada? Trump’s New Visa Fee Could Set You Back Hundreds

By Alexa Leung · October 2, 2025

Travelling to the U.S. just got way more expensive.

Back in the day, folks in Canada would head down south to get some cheap groceries and enjoy a day out of the country. While it’s pricier than ever to do that now, it’s going to get far more costly with Trump’s new visa fee.

VISITOR VISAS

Visitor visas aren’t anything new to the U.S. Generally, nonimmigrant visas are required for visiting citizens of foreign countries to the U.S. These visas come in a few different forms: the B-1 business visa, B-2 tourism visa, or a combination of the two.

Part of the visa application process is the non-refundable fee that applicants must pay upon sending their request in, totalling to US$185 (or C$253.25). Now, visitors will have to pay not only for the application, but also an additional fee that comes when the visa is officially issued.

This has been dubbed the “Visa Integrity Fee.” The added cost cost is slated to affect much of the seventy-two million visitors to the U.S. The fees will reportedly be going to the US Treasury Department’s general fund.

VISA INTEGRITY FEE

Anyone who requires a visa to visit the U.S. will be affected by the Visa Integrity Fee. That means many non-citizens and non-immigrants, such as permanent residents of Canada.

On top of having to pay the application fee, permanent residents will also have to pay the US$250 (C$348.40) fee. This means a single visa to the U.S. will cost more than US$400. And that’s not even including other costs of general travel, like hotels stays or plane tickets. For some, this means trips to the U.S. may have doubled or tripled. This is especially so if they’re only heading there for a day.

Thankfully, Canadian citizens do not require a nonimmigrant visa, making the visa integrity fee a null issue for them.

The Visa Integrity Fee is slated to start from October 1, 2025 and run until September 30, 2026. Moreover, there may be “annual adjustments for inflation” in the next fiscal year.