{"id":978630,"date":"2025-12-05T09:44:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978630"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:05:07","slug":"national-security-decision-us-orders-h-1b-h-4-visa-applicants-to-make-social-media-profiles-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/05\/national-security-decision-us-orders-h-1b-h-4-visa-applicants-to-make-social-media-profiles-public\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;National security decision&#8217;: US orders H-1B, H-4 visa applicants to make social media profiles public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Donald Trump administration is tightening scrutiny of H-1B visa holders and and their H-4 dependents, ordering applicants to keep every social media profile set to &#8220;public.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In a directive released Wednesday, the US State Department said that starting December 15 it will comb through the online activity of all H-1B applicants and their H-4 dependents \u2014 an expansion of measures that already applied to students and exchange visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Donald Trump administration is tightening scrutiny of H-1B visa holders and and their H-4 dependents, ordering applicants to keep every social media profile set to &#8220;public.&#8221; In a directive released Wednesday, the US State Department said that starting December 15 it will comb through the online activity of all H-1B applicants and their H-4 dependents \u2014 an expansion of measures that already applied to students and exchange visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}