State Department will now require all visa applicants to provide social media accounts as Trump's... [View all]

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...'extreme vetting' process finally takes effect

The State Department is now requiring nearly all applicants for U.S. visas to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers.

It's a vast expansion of the Trump administration's enhanced screening of potential immigrants and visitors, which President Donald Trump has referred to for years as 'extreme vetting'.

In a move that's just taken effect after approval of the revised application forms, the department says it has updated its immigrant and nonimmigrant visa forms to request the additional information, including 'social media identifiers,' from almost all U.S. applicants.

The change, which was proposed in March 2018, is expected to affect about 15 million foreigners who apply for visas to enter the United States each year.

[link:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7094161/US-seeking-social-media-details-visa-applicants.html|

Yet another reason why I will not be visiting my house in the US anytime soon... Even if I was not doing my own mini boycott, one link at my DU account and I would be banned for a decade!!!