Student Visa Applicants Required to Make Social Media Accounts Public

Student visa applicants must make social media accounts public, says US

The embassy noted that the US has already been requiring all visa applicants to provide social media identifiers on both immigrant and non-immigrant visa forms.

US visa applicants must make social media accounts public

Applicants for three types of non-immigrant visas to the United States must set their social media accounts to public mode as part of the submission process now in effect, the US embassy in Thailand said on Monday.

Trump administration demands foreign students make social media accounts public

The State Department announced on Wednesday that it will consider online presence in the selection process for F, J, and M nonimmigrant visas — the international student and visiting scholar visa categories — and instructed applicants to make their social media profiles public.  The Bechtel Center said in an email sent to international students on Thursday that “this may be important information especially for [students] who will be traveling ou…

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