U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants

Re:U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants by oldcynic on Thursday March 29, 2018 @05:59PM (#16711459)

Well as the article says it's for "applications for all visa types" can you enlighten me how this would help with giving Brits or Americans a better chance of employment?

Any corporate bringing people in under a skill-based exception is unlikely to be affected - they already game the system, that they helped create, significantly. Any potential overseas worker wanting to emigrate will just add "make a FB, and Twitter account" to their to-do list alongside get a degree.

Social media accounts are not exactly rare things. Would you be happy for the subjective judgements to be required against everyone's (including natives) social media when applying for a job, bank account, holiday, or travelling?

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Re:U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants by scottybowl on Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:11PM (#16711552)

I agree - people lie, cheat and play the system to get what they want. Define the sorts of people you want to give visas to.

So which is it - the American government is super competent and tracks everything and everyone, or they're super incompetent and can't tell a social media account has been created for the purposes of getting a visa?

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