{"id":978656,"date":"2025-12-05T09:56:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978656"},"modified":"2025-12-05T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:26:10","slug":"trump-administration-orders-new-vetting-for-h-1b-applicants-mandates-public-social-media-profiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/05\/trump-administration-orders-new-vetting-for-h-1b-applicants-mandates-public-social-media-profiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration orders new vetting for H-1B applicants, mandates public social media profiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has introduced sweeping new scrutiny for H-1B visa applicants and their dependents, directing US consular officers to intensively review applicants\u2019 employment histories and online footprints for any involvement in activities the government considers \u201ccensorship\u201d of protected speech. <\/p>\n<p>According to an internal State Department cable sent to all US missions on December 2, consular officers must examine resumes and LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants \u2014 as well as accompanying family members \u2014 for roles in areas such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance, and online safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has introduced sweeping new scrutiny for H-1B visa applicants and their dependents, directing US consular officers to intensively review applicants\u2019 employment histories and online footprints for any involvement in activities the government considers \u201ccensorship\u201d of protected speech. According to an internal State Department cable sent to all US missions on December 2, consular officers must examine resumes and LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants \u2014 as well as accompanying family members \u2014 for roles in areas such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance, and online safety.<\/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":[84,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978656","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=978656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}