Currently, social media vetting is already a requirement for several categories, including diplomatic and official visa holders, temporary workers and trainees, exchange visitors, international cultural exchange participants, religious workers, and witnesses, informants, and victims. U.S. State Department widens social media screening, enforcing stricter visa vetting rules. Photo credit: AnnaMoneymaker/GettyImagesSource: Getty ImagesLast June, the department also announced that student visa applicants with private social media accounts would need to make those accounts publicly visible before screening. The expansion reflects a broader tightening of entry requirements into the United States, with social media activity increasingly treated as a key source of intelligence during the vetting process. Social media vetting expands to cover foreign media and USMCA business travelers.