{"id":980532,"date":"2025-12-16T11:05:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980532"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:35:40","slug":"trump-administration-begins-social-media-screening-of-h-1b-visa-holders-from-today-heres-what-to-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/16\/trump-administration-begins-social-media-screening-of-h-1b-visa-holders-from-today-heres-what-to-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration begins social media screening of H-1B visa holders from today\u2014 here&#8217;s what to expect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has begun implementing stricter screening and vetting procedures for H-1B visas and their dependent H-4 applicants, effective today, which now include reviewing social media profiles.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasising that a US visa is a privilege rather than a right, the State Department said that it considers all available information during the visa process to identify applicants who may be inadmissible, particularly those who could pose a threat to national security or public safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has begun implementing stricter screening and vetting procedures for H-1B visas and their dependent H-4 applicants, effective today, which now include reviewing social media profiles. Emphasising that a US visa is a privilege rather than a right, the State Department said that it considers all available information during the visa process to identify applicants who may be inadmissible, particularly those who could pose a threat to national security or public safety.<\/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":[57,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980532","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=980532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}