Karachi:
Pakistani applicants for the categories for F, M or J of non -immigrant visa were advised by the consulates of the United States in Karachi and Lahore on Thursday to make their social media accounts public for research research, according to a report.
“The instructions followed a similar advice issued by the United States Embassy in New Delhi earlier this week. The measure occurred after the administration of President Donald Trump ordered the resumption of the students’ appointments of visa of the students, accompanied by an investigation of significantly more strict social media applicants of the applicants.
“From immediately, all people requesting a non -immigrant visa F, M or J are requested to adjust the privacy settings in all their social media accounts to ‘public’ to facilitate the necessary investigation to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States,” said consulates on the Instagram post.
The publication declared that since 2019, the United States has required that Visa applicants provide social network identifiers in immigrant and non -immigrant visa application forms. He added that the applicants had to complete social media identifiers and account handles for each platform in the application form.
F and M are different types of students’ visas, while Visa J is a non -immigrant visa for people approved to participate in change visitors programs in the United States. “Omitting information on social networks about its application could lead to the denial of visas and inelegability for future visas of the United States,” warned the consulate.
The Trump administration arrested the issuance of new education visas at the end of last month, since it reflected on new social media research strategies. The United States had also attacked Chinese students for special scrutiny in a tense negotiation on tariffs and the supply of rare earth metals and minerals to the United States.
The Directive of the State Department allowed diplomatic positions to resume the programming of interviews for educational and exchanging visas, but added that consular officers would carry out an “thorough and exhaustive research” of all applicants requesting visas F, M and J.
The evaluation of the “anti -Semitic” activity coincides with a guide similar to American citizenship and immigration services under the Department of National Security and has been criticized as an effort to take energetic measures against the opposition to the behavior of the Israel War in Gaza.
