“To facilitate this vetting, all applicants for F, M and J non-immigrant visas will be asked to adjust the privacy settings on all their social media profiles to ‘public’”, the official said. “The enhanced social media vetting will ensure we are properly screening every single person attempting to visit our country.”
I see many of these students straight up deleting their profiles.
Alternatively, they’ll have a “public facing” social media, and a real one.
I’m so happy that I was able to skip all that stuff.
I stoped using my mainstream social media around the years ago.
I kept the profiles, and I think it is good as I can just share them if I’m ever required to.
yeah, I can see not having a social media profile at all being treated as tantamount to sedition before too long
Anyone applying to colleges probably has one already.
Which is probably a net positive on their lives. The less social media the better.
I will imagine that will be seen as suspicious. Interesting businesss to sell clean aged social media account for US only vetting…
Me: I don’t have a social media account Officer: Sure buddy, wait on a side until you do.
Careful curation
“You better not have said anything mean on there that hurts Donald’s feefees.”
My visa application got rejected for posting a watermelon emoji on Myspace in nineteen dickety two.
The subtext here: “if you post anti-Israel stuff, you can kiss your chances goodbye!”
Looks like the US is not the country of choice anymore. Setting a profile to public means gets to see all those things you that may be embarrassing, career limiting, life threatening etc.
Wasn’t this always the case? I remember flying into the US during the Biden era as a tourist and had to declare my social media accounts.
Yes I recalled that too but I don’t recall the public aspect to be turned on.
Wait really? 😂
Welp, looks like I won’t be allowed into America. Oh no. How unfortunate.
opens fedi
presents timeline filled with non-binary catgirls meowing at each other
If you just have some random handle that isn’t your name. How are they gonna trace that to you?
Officer: please wait on the side
