Free 90-Day US Visas for Taiwanese
Yet another US attempt to draw the Taiwanese in.
The US government has added Taiwan to its visa waiver program as part of a strategy to expand tourism to the United States, the White House said. The move will allow Taiwanese visitors to enter the United States for 90 days without visas, a privilege already extended to people of 36 nations.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had linked up to designate “Taiwan as the newest member of the visa waiver program,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said. The move was a logical development in the “close security, economic and people-to-people relationship between the US and Taiwan,” he said. – AFP