Washington: The Trump administration has introduced new rules that will make the H-1B visa process stricter for applicants and their dependents. According to an internal memo shared with United States diplomatic missions on December 2 consular officers must now carry out enhanced background checks before approving the visas. The new process requires officers to review resumes LinkedIn profiles and other online activity of applicants. It also applies to relatives who travel on dependent H-4 visas. The memo states that if there is evidence that an applicant has worked in areas such as content moderation misinformation checks or online safety and was involved in activities seen as censorship of free speech in the United States the visa may be refused.

The US State Department later confir

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