The U.S. Just Made It Substantially More Expensive for Touring Foreign Bands to Get a Visa

Last week, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a series of fee increases that will, among other things, make it 42 percent more expensive for foreign bands to obtain visas so they can tour the U.S.

As Pitchfork notes, the cost of a Form I-129, the visa for a Nonimmigrant Worker,…