As you may know Travel Management Corporation is a proud partner of GlobalStar Travel Management. GlobalStar is our international partner for business travel services worldwide, currently established in over 70 countries worldwide with an annual combined turnover of over $ 13 Billion USD. GlobalStar Travel Management will be exhibiting at this year’s NBTA in Houston between 8 and 11 August. (www2.nbta.org/convention/2010).

Should you be attending this great event we would like to invite you to visit the GlobalStar Booth (booth number 1851) to get acquainted with our international Partner while enjoying a well made Martini Cocktail to combat the intense Houston temperatures!

Our GlobalStar colleagues will be more than happy to explain the benefits of an International Business Travel solution while maintaining the high quality standards you are used to from Travel Management Corporation. Please bring this letter to the booth to exchange for a surprise gift! We hope to see you in Houston!
 

By Jay Boehmer

The U.S. State Department on July 13 will raise the price for visas, passports and other consular services—some by more than $300—to reflect what the department determined is the true cost to provide such services.

For an adult passport, the State Department will begin charging $110—$35 more than the current price—plus a $25 execution fee, which is not retained by the department. Meanwhile, the cost for some visas will jump by even greater amount. For example, an employment-based immigrant visa will cost $720 under the new pricing scheme, compared with the previous $355.

The department's Bureau of Consular Affairs in June 2009 completed a study to assess the full cost to the government to process and issue visas and passports, calling it "the most detailed and exhaustive ever conducted by the Department of State." Following that study, the department "established the true cost of providing these consular services, which by law must be recovered through collection of fees," the State Department said this week.

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