President
Donald Trump has approved tougher visa measures for people interested
in coming into the country for the purpose of keeping it safe.
President Donald Trump
The Trump administration has rolled out a new questionnaire for
U.S. visa applicants worldwide that asks for social media handles for
the last five years and biographical information going back 15 years.
The new questions, part of an effort to tighten vetting of would-be
visitors to the U.S., was approved on May 23 by the Office of
Management and Budget in spite of criticism from a range of education
officials and academic groups during a public comment period.
Critics argued that the new questions would be overly burdensome,
lead to long delays in processing and discourage international students
and scientists from coming to the U.S.
Under the new procedures, consular officials can request all prior
passport numbers, five years’ worth of social media handles, email
addresses and phone numbers and 15 years of biographical information
including addresses, employment and travel history.
Officials will request the additional information when they determine “that such information is required to confirm identity or conduct more rigorous national security vetting,” a State Department official said on Wednesday.
The State Department said earlier the tighter vetting would apply to visa applicants “who
have been determined to warrant additional scrutiny in connection with
terrorism or other national security-related visa ineligibilities.”
President Donald Trump has vowed to increase national security and
border protections, proposing to give more money to the military and
make Mexico pay to build a wall along the southern U.S. border.
He has tried to implement a temporary travel ban on people from six
Muslim-majority nations that a U.S. appeals court refused to reinstate,
calling it discriminatory and setting the stage for a showdown in the
Supreme Court.
The Office of Management and Budget granted emergency approval for
the new questions for six months, rather than the usual three years.
While the new questions are voluntary, the form says failure to
provide the information may delay or prevent the processing of an
individual visa application.
Immigration lawyers and advocates say the request for 15 years of
detailed biographical information, as well as the expectation that
applicants remember all their social media handles, is likely to catch
applicants who make innocent mistakes or do not remember all the
information requested.
The new questions grant “arbitrary power” to consular officials to
determine who gets a visa with no effective check on their decisions,
said Babak Yousefzadeh, a San Francisco-based attorney and president of
the Iranian American Bar Association.
Yousefzadeh said: “The U.S. has one of the most stringent visa application processes in the world.
“The need for tightening the application process further is really unknown and unclear.”
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