{"id":978750,"date":"2025-12-05T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978750"},"modified":"2025-12-05T11:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:29:13","slug":"us-to-scan-social-media-of-all-h-1b-h-4-visa-applicants-from-december-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/05\/us-to-scan-social-media-of-all-h-1b-h-4-visa-applicants-from-december-15\/","title":{"rendered":"US to scan social media of all H-1B, H-4 visa applicants from December 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant tightening of America\u2019s visa-vetting system, the US State Department has announced late on Wednesday night, that all H-1B workers and their H-4 dependents will undergo mandatory social-media screening from Dec 15. Applicants will have to switch their social-media accounts to \u201cpublic\u201d settings to enable scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration experts say the move marks a major expansion of Washington\u2019s digital-footprint policy. Mitch Wexler, senior counsellor at global immigration law firm Fragomen, said, \u201cAn online presence review has been in place for F, M and J visa applicants (students and exchange visitors) since late June 2025; expansion to include the H-1B and H-4 categories is the first ramp-up of the policy.\u201d He adds that, applicants should expect far more intensive review of their posts, interactions and overall digital activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant tightening of America\u2019s visa-vetting system, the US State Department has announced late on Wednesday night, that all H-1B workers and their H-4 dependents will undergo mandatory social-media screening from Dec 15. Applicants will have to switch their social-media accounts to \u201cpublic\u201d settings to enable scrutiny. Immigration experts say the move marks a major expansion of Washington\u2019s digital-footprint policy. Mitch Wexler, senior counsellor at global immigration law firm Fragomen, said, \u201cAn online presence review has been in place for F, M and J visa applicants (students and exchange visitors) since late June 2025; expansion to include the H-1B [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978750","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}