{"id":200895,"date":"2025-06-25T08:33:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-u-s-embassy-in-monrovia-mandates-visa-applicants-to-make-social-media-profiles-public-to-enhance-security-checks\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T08:33:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:33:26","slug":"liberia-u-s-embassy-in-monrovia-mandates-visa-applicants-to-make-social-media-profiles-public-to-enhance-security-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-u-s-embassy-in-monrovia-mandates-visa-applicants-to-make-social-media-profiles-public-to-enhance-security-checks\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: U.S. Embassy in Monrovia Mandates Visa Applicants to Make Social Media Profiles Public to Enhance Security Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Monrovia \u2014 The U.S. Embassy in Monrovia has announced that, effective immediately, all individuals applying for F, M, or J nonimmigrant visas to the United States must set their personal social media accounts to &#8220;public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Embassy explained that, &#8220;this new requirement is part of efforts to strengthen security vetting procedures. The change will help confirm applicants&#8217; identities and assess their eligibility under U.S. immigration law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;Each visa&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506250042.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 The U.S. Embassy in Monrovia has announced that, effective immediately, all individuals applying for F, M, or J nonimmigrant visas to the United States must set their personal social media accounts to &#8220;public.&#8221; In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Embassy explained that, &#8220;this new requirement is part of efforts to strengthen security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,18223,20938,1946,10152,4712,1107,15435,4959,1088,257,23468,5751,4586,3577,254,2282,1956],"class_list":["post-200895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-applicants","tag-checks","tag-embassy","tag-enhance","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mandates","tag-media","tag-monrovia","tag-news","tag-profiles","tag-public","tag-security","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s","tag-visa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}