Citizens of countries including the UK and France will have to disclose the past five years of their social media history to visit the US even though they are covered by visa waiver schemes, under new proposals by the Trump administration.
According to a notice published by the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, applicants to enter the US under its visa waiver programme are to be required to add social media as a “mandatory data element”.
“We want safety. We want security. We want to make sure we’re not letting the wrong people come into our country,” President Donald Trump said during an event at the White House on Wednesday.