Effective immediately, all individuals applying for an F, M, or J nonimmigrant visa are requested to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts to ‘public’ to facilitate vetting necessary to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States under U.S. law. We use all available information in our visa screening and vetting to identify visa applicants who are inadmissible to the United States, including those who pose a threat to U.S. national security. Since 2019, the United States has required visa applicants to provide social media identifiers on immigrant and nonimmigrant visa application forms. Visa applicants are required to list all social media usernames or handles of every platform they have used from the last 5 years on the DS-160 visa application form. Applicants certify that the information in their visa application is true and correct before they sign and submit. Omitting social media information could lead to visa denial and ineligibility for future visas.
As a silver lining to this bizarre and misguided attack, perhaps these uses of social media to overtly scrutinize and surveil people will make big monolithic social media less popular for everyone, not just prospective immigrants. Which, social media in it’s current iteration played such a huge role in the legitimization of post factual politics, that this feels like biting the hand that feeds them.
I love how the US is trying to self-destruct.
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USA really doesn’t want foreign currency from trade or tourism, do they?
No.
“This data we bought from a marketing company says you have three other social media accounts that you have not made public yet. It also identifies two that are public, but secretly your alts.”
“Oh, and the marketing data also tells us the kind of porn you watch.”
The Internet was a mistake.
Sofa King Wierd.
