Trump voting travel industry seen dancing in the streets https://www.cbsnews.com/news/state-...ts-to-share-social-media-accounts-2019-06-01/ State Department now requires U.S. visa applicants to share social media accounts The State Department is now requiring nearly all applicants for U.S. visas to submit their social media usernames, previous email addresses and phone numbers. It's a vast expansion of the Trump administration's enhanced screening of potential immigrants and visitors. In a move that's just taken effect after approval of the revised application forms, the department says it has updated its immigrant and nonimmigrant visa forms to request the additional information, including "social media identifiers," from almost all U.S. applicants. The change, which was proposed in March 2018, is expected to affect about 15 million foreigners who apply for visas to enter the United States each year. Social media, email and phone number histories had only been sought in the past from applicants who were identified for extra scrutiny, such as people who'd traveled to areas controlled by terrorist organizations. An estimated 65,000 applicants per year had fallen into that category. The department says collecting the additional information from more applicants "will strengthen our process for vetting these applicants and confirming their identity." The new rules apply to virtually all applicants for immigrant and nonimmigrant visas. The department estimated it would affect 710,000 immigrant visa applicants and 14 million nonimmigrant visa applicants, including those who want to come to the U.S. for business or education, according to an initial notice. The new visa application forms list a number of social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and require the applicant to provide any account names they may have had on them over the previous five years. They also give applicants the option to volunteer information about social media accounts on platforms not listed on the form. In addition to their social media histories, visa applicants are now asked for five years of previously used telephone numbers, email addresses, international travel and deportation status, as well as whether any family members have been involved in terrorist activities. Only applicants for certain diplomatic and official visa types are exempted from the requirements.
That may the goal for the legal immigrants. In reality, for the others, we will just be lucky if they don't have typhus or bubonic plague. Refer to Los Angeles for more on this.
Vetting people based on their social media history before they apply for a visa to the USA, gee, what a horrible idea. Let's just ignore that post by Mohammed proclaiming his support for ISIS or Jaiyesimi from Nigeria and his history of scamming people online or even Boris from Russia and his single facebook ad that decided the fate of the 2016 presidential election. If Here4Money/Ricter ran a blood bank the donors HIV status would be based on the "honor system". Vetting of any form is discrimination to Ricter.
That makes a lot of sense. There are a lot of bad people in the world that we don't want in our country. This would increase the likelihood that we would able to identify these people prior to allowing entry. You don't really have a right to privacy when you're going through a screening process like this.
I'm glad you support your next employer combing through your email & chat history looking for non-PC conversations or, it will make visitors go "fuck this police state" and make them do a 180
Where the fuck did you get that from? We are talking about the State Dept. and vetting the issuance of visas to immigrants on their social media history based on the article that YOU posted.
I know that this may be a radical concept for you to digest, but many of us here are American citizens who are entitled to certain rights that foreigners are not. I don't have to jump through any hoops whatsoever to have the rights of a citizen, but citizenship is an optional, conditional, privilege for a foreigner. Nevertheless, if I want to become a citizen of Canada, the UK or Crapistan I expect and accept the fact that I will have some conditions and demands that must be met. So, your analogy about requesting information from a foreigner (to the extent that you even accept the concept of a foreigner) and comparing it to an employer requesting it, is a crock. Yeh, I know. The notion that there could be any difference between a citizen and a foreigner is a stretch for you.
What the fuck are you and your house mates smoking today to celebrate Pride Month? Immigration Law and the State Dept. along with their vetting procedures is a different branch of Law separate from Employment Laws for US Citizens. Should I also be against TSA and US Customs agents checking my bags after an international flight because that is somehow equivalent to an employer checking an employee's laptop bag or contents of their wallet on the spot?
Some employers do require that their employees disclose social media & email passwords. There are laws against this in some states, but that's not universal. An individual can avoid this invasion of privacy by finding a different place to work. Immigrants have the same option. They can avoid this invasion of privacy by not applying for a visa. The article makes it seem like this rule only apply to people seeking permanent or semi-permanent residence in the U.S. That wouldn't really affect the travel industry, would it?