US Visa: If you are ready to ask for higher education in the US, prepare for a new digital checkpoint – your social media profiles.
In the latest advice of the US Embassy in India, it has announced that all visa applicants F, M or J must now ensure that their social media accounts are set to “public” before they appear to interview a visa.
“They are immediately asked for all individuals to apply for a visa F, M or J to adjust the protection of personal data protection in all their social media accounts to the public to facilitate the review necessary to introduce their identity and admissibility under US law,” reads the US embassy.
Those who fail to do so will be suspected of hiding this activity from American officials, Guardian reported.
The last step to ask applicants for a visa to make their social media profiles “public” after the US restored the processing of student visas F-1 after a short suspension.
Why must social media accounts be “public”?
According to The Guardian, American diplomats were ordered to perform online presence for foreign students to seek “any hostility of hostility towards citizens, culture, government, institutions or founding principles of the United States”.
One official also said Media Outlet that the Social Media check will help the US ensure that the country can properly check every person trying to visit the country.
Experts weigh screening
Experts respond to this step and have stated that while recovering interviews is good news, there is still great uncertainty.
“It’s good news, bad news. I think I’m glad the conversations are reopening because there are a lot of students who are getting here to get here in the fall, so it created a lot of stress and anxiety.
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