Social media accounts must be public if you want a US visa, government warns
The US Department of State has announced that it will expand the screening and vetting process for visa applicants, and your social media accounts will now be taken into consideration before visas are granted.
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The US Department of State has announced that it will expand the screening and vetting process for visa applicants, and your social media accounts will now be taken into consideration before visas are granted.
The State Department has said that they will take a person’s “online presence” into account before accepting visa applications.
“We use all available information in our visa screening and vetting to identify visa applicants who are inadmissible to the United States, including those who pose a threat to U.S. national security,” the US Department of State said.
Under this new screening and vetting process, the state will now look at students and exchange visitor applicants’ online presence, like their social media accounts.
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For all those who are applying for F, M, and J non-immigrant visa applications, they will be required to change their social media profiles from private to public.
This latest adjustment is a way for the US to protect its national security, as “every visa adjudication is a national security decision.”
In other news, a Norwegian tourist claims he was denied entry into the US after border patrol found a meme of a baby-headed JD Vance on his phone.
Mads Mikkelsen, 21, said immigration officers humiliated and harassed him upon arrival at New Jersey’s Newark Airport on June 11th, including subjecting him to a strip search after checking his phone and finding some pictures that were not to their liking.