The US Embassy in India, in a social post had asked Indian students to list all social media usernames or handles of every platform they have used in the last five years on their application form.

The U.S. is enforcing visa applicants to share their social media history from the past five years, regarding each visa adjudication as a national security decision. The U.S. Embassy in India warns that omitting social media details may lead to visa denial.

Emphasising that each visa adjudication was impacted national security, the US has asked applicants to share their social media usernames and handles of each platform they have used in the last five years.