US makes it clear: We will Revoke or Deny Visa if your Facebook, Twitter or Instagram posts are in support of …

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has made it official. Your social media posts can result in rejection or revoking of your US visa. In an announcement the US immigration authorities stated that they will take a look at social media accounts and deny visas or residence permits to individuals who put up content material thought-about anti-Semitic by President Donald Trump’s administration. DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin, stated in an announcement, “There is no room in the United States for the rest of the world’s terrorist sympathizers, and we are under no obligation to admit them or let them stay here.”

What are Facebook, Twitter or Instagram posts that may result in US visa rejection

According to USCIS, posts outlined as anti-Semitic will embody social media exercise in support of militant teams categorised by the United States as terrorists, together with Hamas, Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Yemen’s Houthi insurgents.
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services “will consider social media content that indicates an alien endorsing, espousing, promoting or supporting anti-Semitic terrorism, anti-Semitic terrorist organizations or other anti-Semitic activity as a negative factor” in figuring out advantages, the assertion stated.

USCIS’ new visa coverage efficient instantly

The coverage takes impact instantly and will apply to pupil visas and requests for everlasting resident “Green Cards” to remain in the United States.

Secretary of State confirms visas of a whole lot of worldwide college students taken away

The official assertion comes after the Trump administration has in the previous couple of weeks reportedly canceled the visas of a whole lot of worldwide college students contained in the United States. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated late final month that he has stripped visas for some 300 folks and was doing so every day. Rubio stated that non-US residents should not have the identical rights as Americans and that it was at his discretion, not that of judges, to problem or deny visas.