Following the injunction on enforcement of President Trump’s revised travel ban, United States Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson directed all U.S. consular posts to broadly increase scrutiny of visa applicants. Additionally, in the wake of the attack in London on March 22, 2017, applicants may anticipate an additional level […]
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By Julian Hattem The Obama administration on Thursday implemented changes to an easy-entry program for foreign tourists designed to block radical extremists from entering the country. The changes require that people who have recently traveled to or are dual citizens with Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Syria have a visa before […]
Secret US Policy Blocks Agents From Looking at Social Media of Visa Applicants, Former Official Says
17 Dec
by Foster, on News
The State Department today said that “obviously things went wrong” in the visa background check for one of the San Bernardino shooters — comments that came in the wake of an ABC News report that said officials by policy generally do not check social media postings of applicants due to […]