US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas
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US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' on new visa applications
The embassy also wants people to set their social media profiles to public.TheJournal.ie
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cyrano
in reply to cyrano • • •okwhateverdude
in reply to cyrano • • •Of course, how would they know if you don't list any? Oh, that's right, PRISM. Fully expect that people who don't have social media accounts to get accused of having them simply because someone else shares the same name and did say First Amendment protected stuff, like Donald Trump is a terrible fucking president and should be impeached.
Sorry person with the last name Erdude. I guess you aren't getting into the US now.
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Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)flandish
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in reply to okwhateverdude • • •Impeached and then executed for treason.
Korhaka
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in reply to Korhaka • • •It'sbetterwithbutter
in reply to cyrano • • •floo
in reply to It'sbetterwithbutter • • •Yeah, keeping our shit to ourselves has never really been our strong suit.
Sorry 🙁
It'sbetterwithbutter
in reply to floo • • •As a Middle Easterner, I genuinely feel sorry for the non maga Americans, but unfortunately that's your fight to fight.
Good luck.
floo
in reply to It'sbetterwithbutter • • •Bloomcole
in reply to floo • • •"And fight we do" LOL
Unleash the devastating power of the Kumbaya warchant on your little stroll to the streets!
The regime will crumble before your eyes.
WarmSoda
in reply to floo • • •Whats_your_reasoning
in reply to floo • • •The comments are ridiculous.
People: if ThE cOuNTry sUcks, wHy doN'T aMeRiCAns dO anYthiNG aBOut iT?
Also people: LoL siLLy aMeRiCAn, AcTiviSm doESn'T wOrk
We're damned if we do, damned if we don't. Keep fighting the good fight. You've got a good decade on me, but I see you and I'm right there with you. ✊
Bloomcole
in reply to It'sbetterwithbutter • • •The Blue MAGA are just as bad for the world, they only cry now bcs they're getting a taste of their own shit domestically.
It'sbetterwithbutter
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in reply to It'sbetterwithbutter • • •BertramDitore
in reply to atomicbocks • • •These immigration raids and terror tactics are terrible on their own, but it’s especially absurd when Native Americans get caught up in it, and it just fully exposes how disingenuous and transparently racist the whole effort is. So I’m sorry that your peoples have to suffer even more because of this racist mindset.
From a January article:
I heard another more recent example of a car full of Native Americans being pulled over, aggressively questioned, and asked for their papers, but I can’t seem to find it. It’s utterly shameful how we treat people.
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in reply to shneancy • • •Vanth
in reply to Gen_Euffe • • •I can't wait to see high attendance in Mexico and Canada-hosted matches, with rock bottom attendance in the US. Even US fans travelling domestically, don't go, especially to the states that are falling into line with Trump.
Not that it will actually be recognized for what it is. I may put together a bingo card on the ways media spins it.
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in reply to cyrano • • •SnokenKeekaGuard
in reply to cyrano • • •Guess I'm never entering the US. 😭😭
(Pretty damn lucky if you ask me)
SnokenKeekaGuard
in reply to cyrano • • •cyrano
in reply to SnokenKeekaGuard • • •Libb
in reply to cyrano • • •Petter1
in reply to cyrano • • •Going there with a crappy handwritten letter including all 40’000 throw-away users I ever created
/s
Kyrgizion
in reply to cyrano • • •Then again, I have no reason to visit shithole countries in the first place.
cyrano
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in reply to cyrano • • •taco
in reply to cyrano • • •The username requirement isn't anything new; that requirement was on our DS-160 years ago.
The "wants people to set their social media profiles to public" isn't quoted, so seems less like an official policy anywhere and more like one embassy worker being a prick. Unfortunately, each individual embassy operates independently totally devoid of any accountability.
This process is dehumanizing, inefficient, and totally fucked...but this particular part of it has been this was for a long-ass time.
cyrano
in reply to taco • • •Quoted here lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47068548
cyrano
2025-06-19 04:02:17
taco
in reply to cyrano • • •Fair enough, though that's an ask from the State Dept., not a demand from the embassy, as indicated in the OP. It's an important distinction because the embassy holds the authority at that point in the process. They can ignore the guidance altogether or demand everyone open their profiles. They're probably more likely to do the latter now, but they could've done this two years ago too.
Demanding the usernames for the past 5 years and being suspect of anyone not on social media isn't a new, that was my main point. I don't think many people appreciated how shitfucked our visa processes are, even before the current "administration" helping.
鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma)
in reply to taco • • •taco
in reply to 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma) • • •I think it's all some level of FUD until there's an example of it being called out as a reason for denial. The fields have been on the application for a while, but I know someone who recently came in with a private ig profile and a vk profile that hadn't been used for anything but chat. Wasn't mentioned at all along the process beyond being on the application.
That may change soon, but it also might just be rhetoric from dipshits playing to their dipshit base.
AnotherUsername
in reply to cyrano • • •far_university1990
in reply to cyrano • • •Or create fake profile with trump positive post, but no history probably suspicious.
cyrano
in reply to far_university1990 • • •fyzzlefry
in reply to far_university1990 • • •Korhaka
in reply to far_university1990 • • •Arthur Besse
in reply to cyrano • • •in other news, the market price of hacked credentials for MAGA-friendly social media accounts:
📈
::: spoiler note
in case it is unclear to anyone: the above is a joke.
in all seriousness, renaming someone else's account and presenting it to CBP as one's own would be dangerous and inadvisable. a more prudent course of action at this time is to avoid traveling to the united states.
:::
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in reply to catloaf • • •catloaf
in reply to Flyberius [comrade/them] • • •☂️-
in reply to catloaf • • •catloaf
in reply to ☂️- • • •What do you mean "what psyops"? Are you unaware that both China and the US, as well as almost every other country around the world, conduct foreign influence campaigns?
reuters.com/world/us/us-voters…
And I'm sure I don't need to give you examples of American campaigns. Most of Hollywood contributes.
bort [none/use name]
in reply to catloaf • • •Was really waiting for them to reveal how they knew this campaign was Chinese.
I can believe that it’s something China could do, but I’m not sure why I should believe this article’s assumptions without evidence provided.
catloaf
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in reply to catloaf • • •oh no need. CIA psyoping has been publicly admitted to by the us government themselves, and some of their own officials.
quite a few of the people-are-dying atrocities too.
vfreire85
in reply to catloaf • • •can you please tell me how exactly chinese psyops will destroy the US? 'cause i can't really see how anything they could would hurt the world.
would the chinese, perhaps, campaign for communism in the US? how could that possibly be bad?
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in reply to cyrano • • •Bloomcole
in reply to cyrano • • •Stuff your visa, and return the favor and stay TF out of other people's countries.
That would be a welcome change.
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in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • • •UnderpantsWeevil
in reply to 鳳凰院 凶真 (Hououin Kyouma) • • •Quite a few of the current crop of deputized ICE agents are MAGA goons from four years ago. So long as you're actively doing the gruesome work of ethnic cleansing, you'll be given a pass.
Duamerthrax
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in reply to cyrano • • •ubergeek
in reply to Zenith • • •jwt
in reply to ubergeek • • •Samsy
in reply to cyrano • • •Sure why not, since my name is Anthony O'Neill. You can find my short form username: Anon.
What could they find? I bet I'm save.
UnderpantsWeevil
in reply to Samsy • • •Yes, what possible community full of people named "Anon" could they find that would get you in any amount of trouble?
rumba
in reply to Samsy • • •I'm betting on the opposite problem,
We show here you've been VERY active. Please have a seat in this chair until we come for you.
ubergeek
in reply to cyrano • • •Aganim
in reply to cyrano • • •Oh well, I wouldn't have been welcome anyway, seeing I've had the audacity to be critical of Israeli ~~genocide~~ defense, TACO and Daddy Put-it-in.
Guess I'll go spend my tourist money elsewhere.
Grandwolf319
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