Requirements for the green card holder: Are you a green card holder in the USA? Donald Trump wants you to hand over social media profiles. He plans to do the following

If you hold a Green Card in America, you may soon have to hand in your social media accounts as part of a new Trump administration. The US citizenship and immigration services (USCIS) are intended to expand an existing regulation that currently affects the applicants for visa in overseas to live in the USA, and they would ask them to submit their social media handles if they apply for a permanent stay or apply for asylum in the USA, reported The Independent.

What is the reason?

The USCIS is a prerequisite for “improved identity review and national security check” in accordance with the report. In a USCIS arrangement published on March 5, entitled “Protection of the United States against foreign terrorists and other threats to national security security”, the agency claimed that social media identifiers/handles will help for identity, national security provision and screening for public security.

How will that affect you?

The plan is expanding a current guideline that is currently expecting visa applicants abroad to provide their social media handles according to the report. The new step would extend to existing residents who are legally present in the country, including those with Green cards and asylum seekers who, according to independents, apply for a permanent place of residence.

The increase in the review of social media occurs, since the Trump government also asks an increased aggressive enforcement of immigration, including a more precise examination of the Green Card and the Visa holder.

What else happens?

In addition to the proposal for a social media profile, the IRS should achieve an agreement with immigration and customs authorities (ICE) so that civil servants are able to access confidential tax information in order to check the identity and places of people who suspect that they are illegal in the USA, the post reported in Washington.

According to the insiders of the Washington Post, the IR’s name of alleged illegal immigrants could submit so that the agency can exceed confidential taxpayer databases, reported The Independent. The insiders claimed that “the Agreement had alerted career civil servants that fear that it was to build up the risk of a data protection law of building criminal proceedings and not enforcing criminal punishments”, as cited from the independent.

Faqs

Why does the US government ask for social media accounts?
The USCIS claims that it is necessary for the review of identity, national security tests and the preventive examinations of public security.

Is that a new guideline?
No, visa applicants abroad were already required to provide social media -handles. The new guideline extends this requirement to people who already live in the United States.