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Old 03-06-2019, 00:09   #16
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Re: US adopt strict rules for Visa applicants

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This is nothing really that new....

...but any excuse to have a bash @ Trump, I guess.

A British Couple were denied entry in 2012 (During Obama's Presidency) for tweeting they were looking forward to absolutely destroying America. What they meant was have a good time, U.S did not see it this way and treated them as a terrorist threat with that single tweet.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16810312
What's the same is that the US monitors social posts. What's new is the emphasis being on applicants to proactively disclose their social media accounts as appose to the US authorities researching them as they did before.
I suspect it's not Trump-originated legislation, more a reaction to the scale of social media around these days and the costs involved.
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Re: US adopt strict rules for Visa applicants

Last year, our working immigration team recommended that anyone who traveled to the US has some kind of social media profile somewhere to aid travel to the US. This included ESTA applications which do have an optional section for social media profiles.

Basically, you you do not exist on social media, that immediately raises some red flags at Homeland Security.
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Last year, our working immigration team recommended that anyone who traveled to the US has some kind of social media profile somewhere to aid travel to the US. This included ESTA applications which do have an optional section for social media profiles.

Basically, you you do not exist on social media, that immediately raises some red flags at Homeland Security.
Raises concerns that you have a life ?
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Raises concerns that you have a life ?
Pretty pathetic ain't it...
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Raises concerns that you have a life ?
Not like having nearly 5,000 posts on a Cable Forum

The list does include LinkedIn as well as the fun ones. The list of applicable social media platforms is in this article - https://thepointsguy.com/news/select...edia-accounts/
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Thanks - they didn’t have that question the last time I applied (November 2016).
I did apply for an ESTA in Feb 2016 and the social media question was on there, although it was not mandatory to provide the information.
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No, nor me; for one thing it's none of Trump's business - or anyone else's, for that matter - what I do on social media...and for another, I don't do anything on social media!

I've never had a Facebook account/profile/whatever the damn thing's called. I've never used Twitter and don't ever intend to. This and Fireflyfans.net are the only message boards I frequent these days.

No, I think any possible visit even as a tourist (because how long will it be before this applies to tourists as well? Thin end of the wedge...) will have to wait until the current nonsense, i.e. Trump's presidency, is consigned to the dustbin of American history where it belongs.
Well, message boards/forums are literally a form of social media, but whether America will class them as such IDK.

If anyone desperately wants to go to live in America, they could always delete selected posts on Facebook (not sure if you can do this with the others) or ask forums to delete any posts that might be troublesome.
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Well, message boards/forums are literally a form of social media, but whether America will class them as such IDK.

If anyone desperately wants to go to live in America, they could always delete selected posts on Facebook (not sure if you can do this with the others) or ask forums to delete any posts that might be troublesome.
It seems to be mostly pure social media platforms plus, strangely Ask.FM and YouTube;
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Re: US adopt strict rules for Visa applicants

People not being happy about this should undergo either the Global Entry program or DV clearance THEN they would have something to not be happy about
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People not being happy about this should undergo either the Global Entry program or DV clearance THEN they would have something to not be happy about
Hah! Toyed with Global Entry but it really wasn't worth the hassle for 4-5 trips a year...

Mind you, one of my work buddies is a US citizen and getting in to the UK sounds like a right pain too, and really expensive in terms of visa costs
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Hah! Toyed with Global Entry but it really wasn't worth the hassle for 4-5 trips a year...

Mind you, one of my work buddies is a US citizen and getting in to the UK sounds like a right pain too, and really expensive in terms of visa costs
Maybe these issues can be sorted as part of any UK-US trade deal?
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