India, June 23 -- The United States embassy in India on Monday asked applicants for three types of non-immigrant visas to the US to make their social media accounts public in order to allow enhanced vetting.

"Effective immediately, all individuals applying for an F, M, or J (Student: academic, vocational or Exchange visitor) nonimmigrant visa are requested to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts to public to facilitate vetting necessary to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States under U.S. law," the US Embassy in New Delhi said in a post on X.

The embassy said the US has required visa applicants to provide social media identifiers on immigrant and non-immigrant visa application forms ...