International Service Assessment Fees from VISA

Effective 8-1-2014: if you perform a cross-border transaction (any transaction where the issuer country is different from the merchant country) with your debit or credit card you may have a Visa International Service Assessment, or ‘ISA’ fee.

The International Service Assessment (ISA) is an international transaction fee that Visa charges on all international transactions. The ISA Fee is 1% for transactions that require currency conversion, or 0.8% of the transaction amount if no currency conversion is required.

This is not an ELGA fee.