US asks visa applicants to make social media accounts public

The United States Embassy in India on Monday asked applicants for three types of non-immigrant visas to the US to make their social media accounts public in order to allow enhanced vetting.

- Shashank Mattoo

NEW DELHI:

"Effective immediately, all individuals applying for an F, M, or J (student, exchange visitor) non-immigrant visa are requested to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts to public to facilitate vetting necessary to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States under US law," the US Embassy in New Delhi said in a post on X.