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📣 From April 2025, all student‑visa applicants must make social media public.
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🕵️ The US scrapes applicants’ online profiles to vet affiliations and content.
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🧾 Applicants must disclose all social accounts used in the past five years.
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🚫 The State Department scrutinizes posts for extremist or terror‑related content.
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🗂️ Hidden or restricted profiles may lead to delays or visa denial.
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📉 The policy ties into the “catch and revoke” approach for flagged content.
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🎓 Student categories and even academic‑exchange visas fall under this rule.
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⚖️ Backlash is growing: some call it First‑Amendment overreach and McCarthyism.
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👨🎓 Over 300 student visas have been revoked so far under new vetting.
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💡 Advice: Audit and clean your social media, and be fully transparent.
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