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Thanks for some actual information. I’m trying to find the directive to force student social media profiles to be public but can’t find anything yet. This article mentions everything in the wsj article that I could read (no sub) but makes no mention of requiring profiles be “public”. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/18/social-media-screen...

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>I’m trying to find the directive to force student social media profiles to be public but can’t find anything yet.

It's on all the US embassy sites, although it says "are requested":

Effective immediately, all individuals applying for an F, M, or J nonimmigrant visa are requested to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts to ‘public’ to facilitate vetting necessary to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States under U.S. law.

https://uk.usembassy.gov/visas/

https://ca.usembassy.gov/visas/

https://in.usembassy.gov/visas/

etc.

> It's on all the US embassy sites, although it says "are requested"

The smart ones won’t sign to it. The dumb ones will take too long to arrest and charge.

They'll just deny them a visa.

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