Washington, D.C. ? America’s admission price is going up.

Even though the dollar is weak overseas, beginning in January most people will have to shell out more money for U.S. visas. The higher charges will help pay for increased costs caused by new security measures imposed after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The State Department said Thursday it will raise application fees for tourist, business and student visas by 31 percent, from $100 to $131, and for immigrant visas by 6 percent, from $335 to $355, on Jan. 1.

The department is required by law to cover the cost of the additional procedures, including more complete fingerprinting of applicants, through the fees it charges. But since the last price bump in 2002, it has absorbed losses.

It addressed only nonimmigrant visas. But the department’s Bureau of Consular Affairs confirmed later that immigrant visa fees also would go up Jan. 1.