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State department plans to enhance their efforts on the vet and review the social media of those who apply for visas for international students and exchange to ensure that applicants do not represent a threat to the US national security, Fox News Digital learned.
To do this, State Department temporarily suspends new interviews for visas for visitors and exchange, as it evaluates improved projections of social media for the application process.
The effort is the latest initiative of Trump’s administration to break the immigration and recall of visas who attend academic institutions in the United States who have publicly supported Palestine faced increased supervisionand the Secretary of State Marco Rubio It was said in May that the administration examined the visual status of students who participated in protest protests.
Trump’s administration accused students who participated in these protests of supporting Hamas – a certain side of the terrorist organization.
State Department is currently examining the existing operations that go into checks and checks for the student and visa exchange, and “based on this examination, he plans to issue guidelines on the expanded social media checks for all such applicants,” the UE -Business said on Tuesday received by Fox News Digital.
State Secretary Marco Rubio said in May that the administration examined the status of a visa of students who participated in the prosecutorial protests. (Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press)
As a result, State Department points to the consular compartment to stop the addition of any additional student or exchangeful visitor visitor until further guidelines are issued, “in the preparation for the expansion of the necessary examination and checking of social media,” the UE -Poruci said.
“The next step is to assess operations and processes in the preparation for this expanded check of all students and exchange (f, m, j) of the applicant,” UE -Poruci said.
“The meetings that are already scheduled can be continued according to current guidelines,” the UE -Poruci said. “However, meetings that are available but not taken from the release of this cable should be removed immediately from availability.”
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State department points to the consular parts to stop the addition of any additional student or exchanging visits to visas, until further guidelines are issued, “in the preparation for expansion of the necessary examinations and checks on social networks,” the UE -Poruci said. (CELAL GUNES/Anadolu Agency)
E -After does not determine what additional steps would be involved in the stricter procedure of the social media procedure, but says that consular offices are sent to the instructions of a particular student and replace the applicant for visitors to a fraud prevention unit for “mandatory check on social networks”.
The State Department did not immediately respond to the Fox News Digital comment on the existing social media policy for applicants.
In the meantime, Rubio told the laws of May 20. He expected State Department had already withdrew thousands of visas since January after the President Donald Trump Inauguration. This is of 300 that the administration has taken away from the end of March.
Rubio also said his agency would continue to withdraw student visas, stating that the visa is not right, it is a “privilege”.
“I do not know the latest numbers, but we probably have more work,” Rubio told MPs on a sub -approval of the Senate’s approval, which overseeing foreign affairs. “We will continue to revoke visas of people who are here as guests and disrupt our higher education institutions.”
In the meantime, Democrats have said that the effort of Trump’s administration is to recall the visa violation of the procedure.
“I think this is a fundamental attack on freedom, because the procedure is a guardian of the door for the government to prevent the life or freedom of people, and freedom is what happens when you take a visa without a duty,” said Senator Jeff Merkley, D-Ore.
The student visa allows those outside the US to study in the country for a certain period of time at the academic institution. In contrast, the green map allows the individual but in the US who is not an American citizen to stay in the country.
Democrats have said that the effort of Trump’s administration is to recall the visa violation of the prescribed procedure. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
State department’s efforts are aligned with the executive commands that Trump signed in January to protect the US from foreign terrorists and other threats of national security, as well as the one who aims to fight anti -Semitism, said a senior State Department official for Fox News Digital.
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One of the executive commands is sent by State Department, as well as the Ministry of Internal Security, the Attorney General and the Director of the National Intelligence, “to” vetrati and check the maximum graduate, all aliens who intend to be admitted, entrances or are already in the United States, especially those coming from the regions or nations with identified safety risks. ”
In addition, the second executive command states that he will now use “all available and appropriate legal tools, to process, remove, or otherwise stay on the perpetrators of illegal anti -Semitic harassment and violence.”
