USA Visa seekers! Keep you Social media history ready for inspection

Washington D.C., March 31: Want to travel to the USA? Then you might have to keep your mobile phones ready while you apply for Visa because you might be asked for your Social Media history. The US administration has said it wants to start collecting the social media history of nearly everyone seeking a visa to enter the US.

The new proposal from the state department published in the Federal Register on Friday said visa applicants would require disclosing all social media identities used in the past five years including the details of their Facebook and Twitter accounts. Visa seekers whether visitors or would-be immigrants will be presented with a list of social media platforms.

Applicants would be asked for five years of their telephone numbers, email addresses, and travel history. They would also be required to say if they had ever been deported from a country, or if any relatives had been involved in terrorist activity.

The information would be used to identify and vet those seeking both immigrant and non-immigrant visas. However, the proposal would not affect citizens from countries which the US grants visa-free travel status among them the UK, Canada, France, and Germany.

The proposal comes after President Trump promised to implement "extreme vetting" for foreigners entering the US to combat terrorism.