U.S. government wants to screen immigrants’ social media before granting citizenship U.S. government are making big moves to scan immigrants social media before awarding citizenship in the United States. Immigrants applying for different types of citizenship will be soon need to provide their social media accounts as part of the application process. Following statements come from the Homeland Security. The Department of Homeland Security wants to be able to review information posted on social media over the last five years by immigrants who apply for nine types of benefits — including U.S. citizenship through naturalization, asylum and changes on permanent residence through marriage — according to a notice published in the Federal Register. “U.S. Government departments and agencies involved in screening and vetting, to include DHS, identified the collection of social media user identifications (also known as usernames, identifiers, or ‘handles’) and associated publicl...