The Ministry US Foreigners will ask all visa applicants for details of their social media accounts.
Please note that the ministry wants to ask not only recent social networking accounts but all those who have used it for the past five years, as well as telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and all international travel made by stakeholders during this period.
If the bill is adopted, it will extend the control regime for every applicant, from immigrants but also simple business travelers or tourists.
The Ministry published his decision on Friday, and the pre-approval public discussion process will end on May 29 2018.
The announcement explains that the Foreign Ministry wishes to extend the amount of information it collects by adding a few questions to its Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration application (DS-260).
The e-form will have a list of social networking platforms (probably the most important) and will "require the interested party to provide any identifiers used on these platforms during the last five from the date of application".
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that the form "will be submitted electronically through an encrypted link to the competent Department".
To mention that some Russians hackers had managed to penetrate the State Department's system in 2014 and in 2016 the Office of the State Department's Inspector General (OIG).
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs estimates that the revised procedure versionof visas will affect approximately 710.000 applicants trying to enter the US.
Of course we don't know if the new measures will prevent those who want to travel to the US. What is certain, is that the United States with the seal of the Department of State endorses a xenophobic one attitude which we tend to see in very authoritarian regimes.