What the media and Government says about F, M, J category Visa Pause announcement
The government of United state’s has put the new student visa applications on halt as stated by many international and domestic news. Upon detail reading of the article, I come to know that the reason give is to put on hold is to conduct the review of social media (vetting of students).
This is kind of strange, In the Non Immigration visa form, students are to provide their social media information since at least 3 years. So the question come to my mind is was the student not scrutinized before? If so then what was the point of collecting this information?
This is strange because most of the legitimate applicants provide correct information and think that they are being scrutinized before appearing for the visa interview and we also believe the same so the reason give to pause the new visa applicant is bit of shock. This will affect both aspiring students and eventually the US colleges and universities as far as we understand. There is no question if US government scrutinize it’s students before giving them the visas that’s perfectly understandable. However, the reason to pause this is bit strange as the other side tool. Is it possible that in past even after collecting the social media information the candidate’s were not scrutinized?
In nut shell, all we can hope that this will be resolved soon and the chaos this has created will come to an end soon and the genuine students will have smooth process in future.
Hiren Thaker