The US State Department on Wednesday announced new, enhanced screening procedures for all H-1B applicants and their dependent H-4 visa applicants to strengthen national security and fraud prevention.

To facilitate this vetting, all applicants for H-1B and their dependents (H-4), F, M, and J non-immigrant visas are instructed to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media profiles to “public".

The consular officers are to look for “potentially derogatory information" and “indications of hostility towards the citizens, culture, government, institutions or founding principles of the US" as well as evidence of “advocacy for, aid of or support for designated terrorists and other threats to US national security; or of support for unlawful antisemitic harassment or violence".

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