{"id":3431,"date":"2019-06-13T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2019-06-13T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T14:03:05","slug":"students-seeking-us-visas-must-supply-social-media-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/06\/13\/students-seeking-us-visas-must-supply-social-media-details\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Seeking US Visas Must Supply Social Media Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3432\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3432\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/socialmedia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3432\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/socialmedia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/socialmedia.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/socialmedia-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>International students heading to the US for college now have an extra step to complete when applying for a visa.<\/p>\n<p>Under rules that went into effect earlier this month, students and most others seeking US visas will be asked to disclose their social media screen names.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new process is a change from past practice, where only individuals tagged for additional screening were required to supply such information. The \u201cextreme vetting\u201d rules \u2014 initially proposed by the Trump administration over a year ago \u2014 require most visa applicants to disclose all the social media platforms they have used in the past five years.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 710,000 immigrant visa applicants and 14 million nonimmigrant visa applicants are expected to be affected, <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5599444\/us-social-media-visa-applicants\/\">according to <em>Time Magazine<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about extreme vetting on NACAC&#8217;s webpage focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nacacnet.org\/knowledge-center\/marginalized-populations\/foreign-and-refugee-students\/\">foreign and refugee students <\/a>and see how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nafsa.org\/Professional_Resources\/Browse_by_Interest\/International_Students_and_Scholars\/Social_Media_Question_on_Visa_Applications\/\">social media question<\/a> appears on the US visa application.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\"><em style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International students heading to the US for college now have an extra step to complete when applying for a visa. Under rules that went into effect earlier this month, students and most others seeking US visas will be asked to disclose their social media screen names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-education","tag-student-visas"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-Tl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}