The United States Consulting in Karachi and Lahore requested on Thursday that all applicants for non -immigrant visas F, M or J make their social media accounts public for research, after the United States embassy issued similar instructions in Delhi earlier this week.
The administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, ordered on Wednesday the resumption of the students’ visa appointments, but significantly hardened their social media research in an attempt to identify any applicant who can be hostile to the country, according to an internal state department cable reviewed by Reuters.
The US consular officers must now carry out an “thorough and exhaustive research” of all student applicants and exchange visitors to identify those who “have hostile attitudes towards our citizens, culture, government, institutions or foundation principles,” said the cable, which was dated June 18 and sent to the United States missions on Wednesday.
In Instagram publications loaded today, consulates said: “From the immediately, all people requesting a non -immigrant visa F, M or J are requested to adjust the privacy settings in all their social media accounts to ‘public’ ‘to facilitate the jug needed to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States.”
They added that since 2019, the United States has required that Visa applicants provide social network identifiers in immigrant and non -immigrant visa application forms. The publication declared that the applicants had to complete social media identifiers and accounts for each platform in the application form.
“Omitting information on social networks about its application could lead to the denial of visas and inelegability for future visas of the United States,” warned the consulate.
F and M are different types of students’ visas, while the V Visa is a non -immigrant visa for people approved to participate in change visitors in the US. UU.
On May 27, the Trump administration ordered its missions abroad to stop programming new appointments for visas applicants for student and exchanges visitors, saying that the State Department was ready to expand the investigation of social networks of foreign students.
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, said that the updated orientation would be published once a review was completed.
