“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.
yeah, I can see not having a social media profile at all being treated as tantamount to sedition before too long
I LOVE THE SUPREME LEADER! LONG LIVE THE SUPREME LEADER!
whispers: “have they left yet?” 👀
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.
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.
Im seeing people come in and out with burner phones that are set up to look clean and minimal.
Why any international students still want to go to the US is beyond me.
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“You better not have said anything mean on there that hurts Donald’s feefees.”
So, what happens when someone that doesn’t have social media accounts applies for a visa? I assume they just won’t believe such a thing and deny the visa since you can’t prove a negative. Would it make sense for such people to make a social media account and just not use it? This is ridiculous.
It would make considerably more sense to not travel to the US, for education or anything else
The US has education?
Parts of the US have excellent education. Or, well, had
- Create X account
- Follow DJT
- Retweet/Favorite our lord’s tweet.
- Write some random shit and praise our lord.
- Repeat 2 and 3 everyday
My visa application got rejected for posting a watermelon emoji on Myspace in nineteen dickety two.
They finally catch up on technology just in time to be behind again.
Many are rejecting social media at this point. That number will continue to grow
Welp, looks like I won’t be allowed into America. Oh no. How unfortunate.
By this point who in their right mind would willingly enter the USA…
opens fedi
presents timeline filled with non-binary catgirls meowing at each other
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? 😂
Biden didn’t seem to care if you called him a “Demented Old Man”
This current administration is led by a crybaby
Both claims are true.
During the Biden administration I should have gone to the US over 25 times, and 3 more during Trump’s new term, and not once have they asked me for anything other than “how long are you here for” and “what’s the purpose of your trip”.
I guess I’m lucky, because I don’t have a single mainstream social media account.
and if you don’t have one?
Everyone hated on her for speaking the truth.
“Do not come”
And the shittiness continues
First they come for the students, then next they’ll come for the usual business visas.
I guess it’s time to make my porn site bookmarks public for the sake of a visa. Maybe I should join a MAGA group on Facebook and praise our lord and savior, DJT.
On a serious note, does this cover ALL social media, including whatsapp too? So it is literally “you surrender everything just to study”. That’s fucked up.
