(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)Heightened security procedures for vetting some visa applicants at U.S. embassies worldwide will likely cause long delays for would-be travelers as the government scrutinizes everything from work history to social media, immigration lawyer and advocates said Friday. Until now, social-media reviews had been done at the discretion of consular officials who approve or deny visas. “This strikes me as an end run around the judicial injunctions,” said Stephen Legomsky, who was chief counsel of U.S. Immigration advocates say that the beefed-up vetting is bound to add to already-lengthy backlogs of applicants. “If there’s a legitimate national security concern about an individual, obviously additional screening is required.

Source: Washington Post March 24, 2017 23:37 UTC