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*In case it helps someone regarding Social Media* Beside my formal job I was involved in various types of social work and small businesses. That's why I had to use several phone numbers and email addresses. I listed the following: Phone number : 5 Email Address : 8 Facebook : 5 (none of these had my legal name. One account in nickname, others accounts are in various versions of leagal name/entity name) Instagram : 3 ( Nickname name) X: 2 ( Nickname) Linkedin : 1 ( Deleted 2 just before ds160, had no connection/post, discovered these accounts by searching all emails, I did not know these accounts exist) Reddit: 11 *Visa Timeline* Visa Interview: 8:30am, 24 June Approved Status : Checked at 7pm, 25 June Issued Status: 25 June Collected: 27 June (Approx applicant on that day on that particular slot : 80+) *Many of us think having too many social media accounts or presence is a red flag. I thought as well. I wanted to skip some because I had posts that are on geopolitical and emerging market economy analysis. However, after a through research I decided to list them all*