BREAKING: You Will Now Submit Your Social Media Handles When Applying For US Visa

Nearly all applicants for US visas will have to submit their social media details under newly adopted rules.

The State Department regulations say people will have to submit social media names and five years' worth of email addresses and phone numbers.

When proposed last year, authorities estimated the proposal would affect 14.7 million people annually.

Certain diplomatic and official visa applicants will be exempt from the stringent new measures.

However, people travelling to the US to work or to study will have to hand over their information.
"We are constantly working to find mechanisms to improve our screening processes to protect US citizens, while supporting legitimate travel to the United States," the department reportedly said.

The Trump administration first proposed the rules in March 2018.

At the time, the American Civil Liberties Union - a civil rights group - said there is "no evidence that such social media monitoring is effective or fair", and said it would cause people to self-censor themselves online.


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Cc lalasticlala Mynd44 Seun

Lol... This guys sha

I hope Nairaland follow...

Apparently, i won't be going anywhere....
Nigeria is my home. stop telling me sorry, I'm not crying na

It's not like trying to delete stuff on your profile would do nada. . .

They already have a back-door to each platform

If only Nigeria make sense, we no go even send yankee

but how we go do?

This one wey we don even enter next level, na to japa . . . .

To check all these terrorists on Nairaland.

Good.

BruncleZuma:


I hope Nairaland follow...

LMAO If na to use NL judge Nigerians for this matter, na "we die hie" our case go be ooo.

Because Trump the loser is a snowflake. He will like to block people who criticize him...what a loser.

Nna men..... Make this man just build wall for USA ...haba eh don too much....wetin sef....Trump ya papa!!!! Shege!!! Damburuba dia!!!

Wetin I wan even go do for that abominable land of "Foreign Government Subversions" that will soon become target of Russian, Chinese, North Korean, Iranian ICBMs & SLBMs?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwJ2WA1HNFo

58 years ago at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, the CIA failed miserably and the Cuban Revolution survived and Fidel lived to a ripe old age.

Today, this same CIA - the intelligence agency with the biggest budget on the planet - continues to fail miserably, with the failed coup in Venezuela being a prime example.

In addition to the "Cocaine Importing Agency" (CIA) - wasting another tens of Billions of Dollars in Syria trying to topple my friend "Bashar Al-Assad" which resulted into a total failure & disgrace - thanks to Mother Russia.

But should we really be surprised at the CIA’s failings when a filthy clown like "Mike Pompeo" can rise to the top in such an organization?

Just watch; some hare-brained nonentities will quote me comparing Amerika to Nigeria.

YungMillionaire:
Because Trump the loser is a snowflake. He will like to block people who criticize him...what a loser.

pained soul!! You're calling him a snowflake because he made it harder for nigerians to enter his beloved country. Don't get mad at him, channel your anger to your government.

What about those without Social Media accounts? Would not having an SM account, automatically disqualify applicants....................