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More US Visa Applicants In The Philippines Required To Set Social Media Accounts Public

If you are about to apply for a United States visa, you should be ready to set your social media accounts public as a new requirement announced by the US Embassy in Manila came into effect which covers even more applicants, according to a Manila Bulletin news report.

To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the Manila Bulletin news. Some parts in boldface…

Applicants from more US visa category groups are now required to set their social media accounts public, based on the latest advisory of the US Embassy in Manila.

Effective March 30, visa applicants who need to change their social media privacy setting belong to the following categories:

*    Fiancé(e) Visa Applicants (K-1, K-2, and K-3 visas)

*    Certain Personal Employees or Domestic Workers (A-3, C-3, and G-5 visas)

*    Trainee or Special Education Exchange Visitors (H-3 and their H-4 dependents)

*    Cultural and Religious Visitors (Q, R-1, and R-2 visas)

*    Informant, Witness, and Victims of Crimes (S, T, and U visas)

These categories are in addition to Students and Exchanges (F, M, and J) and Specialty Occupations (H-1B and their H-4 dependents) categories.

According to the embassy, it is using such information “to determine applicants’ eligibility to receive a visa.”

Since 2019, it said, the US has required visa applicants to provide social media usernames on immigrant and nonimmigrant visa application forms.

“Visa applicants are required to list all social media usernames, handles, or identifiers for every platform they have used in the last 5 years on the visa application form,” it said.

“Applicants certify that the information in their visa application is true and correct before they sign and submit,” it added.

Let me end this post by asking you readers: What is your reaction to this recent development? Did you submit your social media accounts and set them all public the last time you applied for a US visa?

You may answer in the comments below. If you prefer to answer privately, you may do so by sending me a direct message online.

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Here's the official #StateDepartment notice about requiring #visa applicants (and soon holders) to the United States saying you MUST turn all your social media accounts to PUBLIC.

This is absolute madness. Do not comply. Do Not Come to the United States. The government will attack you. We have gulags. Literally, concentration camps where the living conditions are beyond horrific.

Please, there are thousands of fantastic universities everywhere else. Canada, Europe, Asia...anywhere but here. Please, for your own safety, and the safety of everyone you have ever talked to online, DO NOT COMPLY.

#uspol #danger #USVisa #USTourism #tourism #USA #DoNotComply

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/06/announcement-of-expanded-screening-and-vetting-for-visa-applicants/

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#USvisa #applicants must make #socialmedia accounts #public
"Applicants for three types of non-immigrant visas to the #UnitedStates must set their social media accounts to public mode as part of the submission process now in effect.. The F visa is for #students, M for #vocational students, including those attending #training in #US, & J classification is for #visitors on #exchange programmes"
🤦‍♂️I feel sorry for those who really hv to suffer tis gross #invasion of #privacy.
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यूएस वीजा नियम: सोशल मीडिया अकाउंट्स को पब्लिक करना किया अनिवार्य, यहां पढ़ें पूरी डिटेल

India News: अमेरिकी दूतावास ने यूएस वीजा नियम में सख्ती की। F, M, J वीजा आवेदकों को अपने सोशल मीडिया अकाउंट्स पब्लिक करने होंगे। यह नियम तुरंत लागू हो गया। इसका मकसद पहचान और सुरक्षा जांच को मजबूत करना है। भारतीय छात्रों और विजिटर्स को फेसबुक, इंस्टाग्राम, एक्स जैसे प्लेटफॉर्म्स पब्लिक करने होंगे। दूतावास ने कहा, वीजा एक विशेषाधिकार है। नियमों का पालन न करने पर वीजा रद्द हो सकता है।

कौन से वीजा प्रभावित होंगे

यूएस वीजा नियम F, M, J श्रेणियों पर लागू होंगे। F वीजा कॉलेज और यूनिवर्सिटी छात्रों के लिए है। M वीजा वोकेशनल ट्रेनिंग के लिए है। J वीजा एक्सचेंज प्रोग्राम्स जैसे रिसर्चर्स, टीचर्स के लिए है। आवेदकों को सोशल मीडिया प्रोफाइल पब्लिक करना होगा। यह नियम अमेरिका में प्रवेश की पात्रता जांचने के लिए है। भारतीय छात्रों को अपने प्रोफाइल की सामग्री जांचनी होगी। पुराने पोस्ट भी स्क्रीनिंग में शामिल हो सकते हैं।

सोशल मीडिया जांच का मकसद

यूएस वीजा नियम के तहत सोशल मीडिया जांच से पारदर्शिता बढ़ेगी। अमेरिकी दूतावास ने कहा कि यह कदम राष्ट्रीय सुरक्षा के लिए है। सोशल मीडिया से आवेदक की पहचान और इरादे सत्यापित होंगे। संदिग्ध गतिविधियों का पता लगेगा। यह नियम दुनियाभर के अमेरिकी वीजा कार्यालयों में लागू है। छात्रों को अपने प्रोफाइल साफ रखने की सलाह दी गई है। गलत कंटेंट से वीजा खारिज हो सकता है।

किन प्लेटफॉर्म्स को करना होगा पब्लिक

यूएस वीजा नियम के अनुसार, फेसबुक, इंस्टाग्राम, एक्स, लिंक्डइन, यूट्यूब और टिकटॉक जैसे प्लेटफॉर्म्स पब्लिक करने होंगे। अन्य प्लेटफॉर्म्स जो ऑनलाइन गतिविधि दिखाते हैं, उन्हें भी शामिल करना होगा। होमलैंड सिक्योरिटी ने कहा कि वीजा मिलने के बाद भी जांच जारी रहेगी। संदिग्ध प्रोफाइल मिलने पर वीजा रद्द हो सकता है। आवेदकों को प्रोफाइल में नाम, फोटो, शिक्षा जैसे विवरण दस्तावेजों से मिलान करने होंगे।

https://twitter.com/USAndIndia/status/1937089816660680824

आवेदकों के लिए सावधानी

नए नियमों से भारतीय छात्र और पेशेवर चिंतित हैं। उन्हें अपने सोशल मीडिया प्रोफाइल की सामग्री जांचनी होगी। विवादास्पद या अनुचित पोस्ट हटाने चाहिए। प्राइवेसी सेटिंग्स को पब्लिक करना होगा। वीजा साक्षात्कार से पहले प्रोफाइल को दस्तावेजों से मिलान करना जरूरी है। यह कदम फर्जी पहचान वालों की स्क्रीनिंग को आसान बनाएगा। आवेदक अपने भविष्य को सुरक्षित रखने के लिए सतर्क हैं।

#socialMedia #usVisa

Ausländer, die in den USA studieren wollen, müssen jetzt ihre Social-Media-Accounts offenlegen. Wer sein Profil nicht öffentlich macht, riskiert eine Ablehnung des Visums. 🇺🇸🔍 #USVisa #SocialMedia #StudiumUSA Mehr dazu: https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Auslaender-muessen-fuer-US-Studium-Social-Media-offenlegen-article25844369.html
#newz

My least-replicable travel hack is now saving me money, not just time

The passport that I’ve taken for much of my international travel since the spring of 2017 finally has some stamps in it–courtesy of the Brazilian border officers in São Paolo who did the honors with my Irish passport at the start and end of my trip for Web Summit Rio this week.

While I had traveled to Rio on my U.S. passport the previous two years, Brazil has since rolled out its e-visa program for U.S., Canadian and Australian citizens. Applying for one of these 10-year travel permissions costs $80.90 and, per numerous reports from travelers, requires time and patience to deal with glitches and delays in the approval process.

Traveling with my Irish passport, however, required nothing beyond scanning it into the United app’s Travel-Ready Center, having a check-in agent at Dulles eyeball that before issuing my boarding pass for last Saturday’s flight, and showing it one more time to a gate agent during boarding.

I didn’t have any issues exiting the country on that passport either, although having two passports on the reservation meant I had go through a second doc check for my U.S. passport before getting a boarding pass for my flight back to the States.

This was the second time this year that my Irish citizenship has saved me little money instead of merely letting me use shorter passport lines in Europe as an EU national (and not getting a passport stamp in the process).

Since Jan. 8, American citizens traveling to the United Kingdom have had to pay £16 for a two-year ETA (electronic travel authorisation) and do that at least three business days before flying to the U.K. It could have been worse; the British government originally planned to require an ETA just for connecting through Heathrow before relenting.

But Irish nationals are exempt from this, in keeping with the U.K. and Ireland’s Common Travel Area arrangements. So I didn’t have to worry about getting an ETA for my two-day stopover in London between Web Summit Qatar and MWC Barcelona.

Starting in the last quarter of 2026, I’ll get one more way to save a little money when the EU implements its ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorisation System), which will cost €7 and be valid for three years or, if sooner, the expiration of the passport used to apply for it. EU nationals will, of course, be exempt from that.

I feel a little guilty ducking all of these minor administrative obstacles since all of these countries are only responding to longstanding U.S. travel-permissions requirements for their own citizens. Brazilian citizens need a visa to travel to the U.S., with fees starting at $185 for a 10-year non-immigrant tourist visa. And U.K. and EU nationals need to pay $21 for an ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization), good for two years or passport expiration.

No American can blame any foreign government for deciding to return a little of these favors. And every American should hope that foreign governments following news of the incarcerations of international tourists and students in the U.S. (in some cases only for their speech) under the xenophobic Trump administration have the grace not to reciprocate.

#BrazilEVisa #dualCitizenship #ESTA #EUETIAS #internationalTravel #IrishCitizenship #IrishPassport #passportStamps #passports #UKETA #USPassport #USVisa #WebSummitRio