US immigration service wants social media handles of visa applicants

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• RejZoR@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Would they believe if I say I don’t have Fecesbook and Xitter accounts (because I actually don’t)? I’d just lie for the rest…

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  • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And if you were a criminal, you would create a false account with unicorns on it.

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• solrize@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I still say 4chan was ahead of us give. No handles, just a big mix of unknowns.

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  • justsomeguy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was also raw as fuck. That allowed for some very honest interactions but also introduced a shitload of trash to filter through. Then the whole political influx came in a decade ago and fully ruined it. lemmy seems like a good middle way. no senseless karma farming but also some tools to moderate.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Was? Is.

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    • Mubelotix@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah you can definitely be anonymous here. Accounts and even instances are easy to create. I like the result

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  • jimmy90@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    yeah look at all the wonderful things they created

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  • Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Handles do exist, they’re just optional and most channers don’t use them.

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    • lurch@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      they always seemed to me like a temporary way to ensure nobody creeps in when you do somethjng like exchange contact details etc…

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• Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is not new. I believe they’ve been doing this as far back as Obama (although it might have been less widespread back then).

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Doesn’t make it any less wrong. They don’t need it, so they shouldn’t be allowed to ask.

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    • Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t understand how this is wrong, they’re asking for your @ not your login. They’re doing a background check on you regardless so say for Facebook they’re just going to look you up anyway this just shortens the process.

      If it’s a public facing account I don’t get what’s so “wrong” about this

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  • blackwall@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What happens if you don’t have any mainstream social media accounts? What happens if you say you don’t have any mainstream social media accounts? What happens if you give them a the handle of a respectable “friend’s” account? How far do they go to actually verify or enforce this?

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    • daizelkrns@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I did go through this on 2022 with no real social media presence. I just didn’t add anything to that section of DS160 and got through the process with no issues

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    • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      People going through US immigration (I did this maybe ~20 years ago as a student) will just make a temp, low-use account or something similar.

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• NightCrawlerProMax@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s been like that for a long time now. I remember I was filling out DS160 form in 2022 and they were asking for all of my SM handles.

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• MuskyMelon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This requirement is not new. In visa applications for visitors, you’re already required to list all your social media accounts.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s ridiculous and should be banned.

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• masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lol. The only people who would want US visas have handles like bigballs and 14heil88trump6969.

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• cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

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• Mako_Bunny@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This has been around for at least 10 years

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• Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hahahaha yeaaah they wont like what i post and used to post.

  Dear reader if you are curiouse, its both. Both of what you think

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• regrub@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I bet the dept that will be responsible for checking social media is too short-staffed to thoroughly vet applicants anyway because of DOGE cuts.

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• puppinstuff@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not an unreasonable request. If the shoe was on the other foot I’d want to be screening every American coming to our border to check if they were active on topics like annexation or shudder cyber truck enthusiasm.

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• Geodad@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I still don’t understand why people want to come to this shithole country.

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