{"id":1764,"date":"2019-06-02T18:30:29","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T18:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crestaproject.com\/demo\/fresco\/?p=80"},"modified":"2020-01-23T15:12:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T15:12:37","slug":"us-visa-require-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ekconation.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/02\/us-visa-require-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"US Visa Applications Require Social Media Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visa applicants to the United States are required to submit any information about social media accounts they have used in the past five years under a State Department policy that started on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Such account information would give the government access to photos, locations, dates of birth, dates of milestones and other personal data commonly shared on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already request certain contact information, travel history, family member information, and previous addresses from all visa applicants,\u201d the State Department said in a statement. \u201cWe are constantly working to find mechanisms to improve our screening processes to protect U.S. citizens while supporting legitimate travel to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/02\/us\/us-visa-application-social-media.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full article on the New York Times website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With this new decision, how important is it for us to ensure we manage the content our youth post online?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visa applicants to the United States are required to submit any information about social media accounts they have used in the past five years under a State Department policy that&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekconation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekconation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekconation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekconation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekconation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekconation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekconation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions\/1865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekconation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ekconation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekconation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ekconation.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}