Almost all US Visa applicants will now have to offer details of their social media as per the newly adopted laws. This was announced by the US Department of State. It has said that people will have to provide social media names, email addresses and phone numbers for the last 5 years.
The new rules for US Visa applicants were
first proposed in 2018 March. The authorities had then estimated that it would affect 14.7 million individuals every year.
Some official and diplomatic Visa applicants would be exempted from the strict
new rules.
Nevertheless,
individuals arriving in the US for Study or Work will have to offer their
details.
The Department
said that it is continually working to identify
methods for enhancing the screening processes. This is to safeguard US
nationals while also supporting lawful travel to the US, it added.
Earlier, only
individuals who required extra vetting had to offer these details. It included
people who had visited areas that were controlled by terrorist outfits.
However, now
almost all US Visa applicants will have to offer their account names on several social media platforms. They will have to
volunteer the information of their accounts on any unlisted sites.
Anybody who offers false information regarding
their usage of social media would face
stern immigration penalties. This was revealed by an official of the Trump
administration, as quoted by the BBC.
When the rules
were first proposed last year, the
American Civil Liberties Union had not supported the idea. The civil rights
group had said that there was no proof that monitoring social media in this way
was fair or effective. This would result in individuals self-censoring
themselves online, added ACLU.
Donald Trump the
US President made a crackdown on
immigration a chief plank for his election campaign in 2016. He had
demanded excessive vetting of migrants prior to and after assuming the office.
Donald Trump
also has vowed to enforce steadily
increasing tariffs on Mexico. This is until the nation curbed unlawful
immigration at the US border southwards.
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