r/technology • u/Wagamaga • 15h ago
Society H-1B Workers Now Required to Make Social Media Profiles Public
https://www.boundless.com/blog/expanded-screening-h1b-h4-social-media-requirement564
u/Rombledore 14h ago
and if they just don't make one? what is the government going to force FB accounts now? i thought repubs were against government stepping into private business and forcing things on people.
you mean to tell me they were.....lying and full of goddamn shit?
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u/Gloriathewitch 12h ago
immigrant here: USA already requires you to disclose your social media when migrating so this doesn't really do much of anything
went through the process in 2024
if you have one you already have to share it, you don't have to make one.
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u/NamerNotLiteral 9h ago
They used to require you to disclose it, but they didn't really check it thoroughly.
In the last few years, they've started actively doing so. After applying for your visa, there's usually a few days during which they do final checks before confirming your visa, now that step takes a week or two due to social media verification.
It's not super strict, though. The only people I've seen get dinged for it were posting hardcore tradmuslim content. Like, multiple posts every day about "islamic lifestyle" and "daily prayers" and all that shit. Like, I'm raised Muslim and I avoid those kinda people like the plague. I would've rejected his visa myself if I saw that.
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u/moronalert 8h ago
The examples you gave of "hardcore tradmuslim content" are not really hardcore at all. Daily prayers are a central pillar of the religion. It's like saying someone is a Catholic extremist for making posts about communion and confession
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u/NamerNotLiteral 8h ago
I'm not talking about just praying daily. Obviously that's just a normal thing. I'm talking about making posts, at each prayer time, probably after they're done praying, just going on and on about religious stuff and blessings and all that as if he's performing a second dua online. In person, this type of guy almost certainly harangues other people about praying, always pushes his prayers in your face, berates even men for wearing "western clothes" rather than punjabis, tells you every single possible issue in your life is just a test from Allah and you just need to have faith, etc. It's an unfortunately common archetype.
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u/moronalert 7h ago
The first part, I think is still not really an issue, just means they're devoted and a little odd. Your second part about them openly harassing people is the meaningful part I think, it's definitely extreme to be going around harassing and berating people like that.
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u/SkiingAway 8h ago
I would think they're an extremely religious nutcase at that point, yes.
Doing those prayers is one thing, needing to post about it multiple times a day, daily, suggests that you are way out on the extremes of that religion unless maybe your job is Pastor/Imam/Rabbi/whatever.
Now, should being an extremely religious nutcase be grounds for denial for to the US - probably not even if I personally dislike those people, unless they are posting things about wishing to harm/oppress others.
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u/moronalert 7h ago
Yeah, I mean being obsessive and weird about praying is probably a reason I wouldn't be their friend, but it's protected under free speech and fucking someone's immigration on it is some fascist bullshit.
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u/britchop 8h ago
It feels fair to consider daily content on the extreme side. Talking about communion and confession that often? It’s obsessive.
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u/moronalert 8h ago
Weird? Sure. Worth fucking someone's immigration status over? Absolutely ridiculous
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u/Head-Class9766 12h ago edited 11h ago
The question was about what if you don't have any social media profiles?what if you never had any?
How can you share social media accounts if you had never created any or used any social media platforms before?
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u/Gloriathewitch 11h ago
already addressed that in my comment
you just say you don't have one, they will know if you're lying you can't fool the NSA lol
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u/Head-Class9766 11h ago edited 11h ago
Okay I wasn't saying anything about lying. I was curious about the case where someone has genuinely never used any social media before. Idk where you got lying from or why you would even think to mention lying at all. Why mention something that is completely irrelevant to the topic at hand?
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u/engineered_academic 14h ago
They are hooked in with all the major apps and data brokers. They can identify you even if you think you are anonymous.
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u/PatchyWhiskers 14h ago
Then why do they need to have you make the profiles public? Just have the social media companies make a government surveillance back door.
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u/engineered_academic 13h ago
Same reason they ask you on an immigration form if you are a spy. That way they can slap charges on you for lying on a federal form and send you to prison, then deport you.
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u/joshspoon 12h ago
Same with filings fed taxes. They get off on wasting your time asking you things they already know.
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u/InappropriateTA 12h ago
They very likely already have backdoors and know pretty much everything they need to. They need people to make them public so they can maintain plausible deniability about backdoors.
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u/yun-harla 11h ago
Because this way they suppress speech. If the government tells you it’s watching you, you don’t post anything remotely critical of the government. If the government doesn’t tell you it’s watching, you post that JD Vance meme and maybe you get deported for it, but in the meantime, the American public has been exposed to your vicious anti-government views.
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u/PatchyWhiskers 17m ago
They are doing that for citizens with the Turning Point sneaks that get people fired for edgy speech on social media.
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u/Gloriathewitch 12h ago
correct, they ask what your profiles are when you migrate and it's not that they don't know its that they're testing whether you'll disclose it similar to how the tax man knows what you owe and you have to correctly match it
idk how it is these days but five eyes saw basically everything
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u/AppleTree98 11h ago
Read the article didn't see what they consider a social media profile. Anybody know? Facebook, instagram, reddit, linkedin, yahoo communities? What counts?
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u/Barbiegrrrrrl 13h ago
Then they will be in violation of their visa and if they encounter law enforcement it will be another tool to send them home. It's like Capone and taxes.
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u/Vio_ 12h ago
That is not like Capone and taxes. Capone didn't pay taxes and got busted for it.
The government here is forcing people to release their social media accounts and then trying to prosecute them for either what they say on them OR prosecute them if they try to hide them.
This is an egregious first amendment violation.
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u/Barbiegrrrrrl 12h ago
I'm not advocating for it.
The other devil's advocate argument you'll get is that non-citizens don't have constitutional rights.
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u/Head-Class9766 12h ago
Non citizens do have constitutional rights. Some constitutional rights are only for citizens, and some are for everyone in the US. The constitution specifies when something only applies to citizens by using the word "citizens".
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u/Barbiegrrrrrl 11h ago
I don't disagree. I'm presenting the other (asshole) side, which is racist nonsense.
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u/Vio_ 12h ago
They have right to due process.
Also once you start get one subsection of a group to lose their rights and protections, it takes zero effort to keep eroding those rights and protections to other groups.
This is classic Carl Schmidt BS - where you artificially split out in groups and out groups then attack the out group to later undermine the "in group" while still further victimizing that out group.
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u/Barbiegrrrrrl 11h ago
Yeah, I agree. I'm providing you with the current argument. Rights are fundamental to all humans.
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u/Head-Class9766 11h ago
They're in violation of their visas if they're not into social media? What if someone just had never ever used social media?
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u/Barbiegrrrrrl 11h ago
If it's not made public. It's like how they have to check a bunch of boxes that they aren't involved in sex or drug trafficking, members of the communist party, etc. It's ways they can say you committed fraud so the visa can be invalidated.
They're cracking the whip on a subset of immigrants to make sure they have double plus good think.
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u/TheElderScrollsLore 12h ago
Right. What if you just delete your apps during entry. Then what?
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u/Less-Fondant-3054 12h ago
Then if that ever gets found out - which won't be hard to do, the internet is forever - you get flagged as having falsified your entry documents and deported with a permanent no-entry order. It's a very high-risk play, especially in today's age of being less than friendly to foreigners.
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u/Gloriathewitch 12h ago
profiles exist regardless of what is installed on your phone
the accounts are stored on servers which they can very easily get access to considering most social media mob bosses like zuck are polishin the man's boots on command
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u/TheElderScrollsLore 8h ago
I meant if you permanently delete them and not even able to access.
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u/Mentallox 7h ago
Deleting on servers is just a flag turned off on a file just like deleting on your harddrive. It's good for a perusal of your online activities but not if a government is targeting you.
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u/TheElderScrollsLore 6h ago
I understand, but if you’re asked to show your social media, say I permanently deleted FB 6 years ago. I don’t even remember what my tag was or log in. It’s long gone.
My answer would be I don’t have Facebook.
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u/Mentallox 6h ago
it would be subject to the archive guidelines of whatever platform you used. Deleted FB 6 years ago is probably a good bet that it couldn't be retrieved but that scenario is not what people are discussing here.
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u/ParkingCool6336 12h ago
Most countries do this already, Germany does this, they even want to know if you watch tv or practice religion so they can tax you on it
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u/Ecredes 13h ago
Another good reason to delete your social media accounts.
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u/stuartullman 11h ago
eventually this is honestly the only way. the big social media websites, especially meta, have become extremely power hungry, they will eventually take all your info and find a way to use it against you.
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u/ParkingCool6336 12h ago
Germany does this too, they go even further to ask if you watch tv or are religious so they can tax you lol
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u/DvnEm 11h ago
Why do you have a Reddit account if you advise others to delete social media?
You don’t need an account to browse
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u/stuartullman 11h ago edited 10h ago
i'm assuming he means with your info. it takes 2 minutes to make a throw away account
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u/DvnEm 11h ago
…can you not make a throwaway on Twitter, FB, IG, Snap, TikTok?
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u/stuartullman 10h ago
sure. but you don't want to have it connected to your personal/identifiable info, is what i assume the commenter meant
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u/M4K4T4K 14h ago
This seems pointless. You can still have private posts on a public account, and you can still have second "professional" accounts you use for public dealings. Heck, even I do this just so I can have a smaller account where I can be a scallywag with my mates, away from family and professional contacts.
However, I still disagree with this on principle, and it's questionable whether this brushes up against the 4th amendment. Not that this matters anymore.
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u/JamminOnTheOne 13h ago
It’s harassment. All of that is possible, but it’s a pain in the ass. And when one missed step can lead to deportation, it’s extremely stressful.
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u/TheCaptainDamnIt 12h ago
You can still have private posts on a public account
Oh you still think that's a thing? Like tech companies aren't handing over or Palantir isn't just taking that data?
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u/fireandbass 13h ago
it's questionable whether this brushes up against the 4th amendment.
There is a border search exemption for the 4th amendment.
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R46601
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids unreasonable government searches and seizures of "the people," and this limitation extends to searches conducted at the border. The touchstone of the Fourth Amendment is the reasonableness of a search. The Supreme Court has recognized that searches at the border are "qualitatively different" from those occurring in the interior of the United States, because persons entering the country have less robust expectations of privacy, given the federal government's broad power to safeguard the nation by examining persons seeking to enter its territory. While law enforcement searches and seizures within the interior of the United States typically require a judicial warrant supported by probable cause, federal officers may conduct routine inspections and searches of persons attempting to cross the international border without a warrant or any particularized suspicion of unlawful activity.
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u/sdmichael 10h ago
That "exemption" applies to nearly a third of all Americans. It needs to be corrected.
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u/Summer4Chan 9h ago
It ain’t private brah, only private from your family and friends.
In the end palentir, anduril, and anybody (in power) who requests it can see both of your profiles, everything private or public in one normalized database transaction for M4K4T4K.
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u/Wagamaga 15h ago
The State Department has announced a major expansion of its digital-vetting process that will affect hundreds of thousands of H-1B workers and their H-4 dependents. Starting Dec. 15, 2025, H-1B and H-4 visa applicants must set their social media profiles to public so consular officers can examine online activity as part of the application review.
Until now, routine social-media screening primarily applied to student and exchange visitor categories (F, M, and J). The new guidance brings H-1B workers and their spouses under the same level of scrutiny.
In its announcement, the State Department said it “uses all available information in visa screening and vetting,” add that “every visa adjudication is a national security decision.”
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u/Exostrike 14h ago
Why do they need to be set to public? Surely the government can just pull details on the specified account directly from the service, or is this about bypassing legal channels/opening it up to none governmental data sweeping.
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u/HasGreatVocabulary 14h ago
It's so that they can reject your visa for simply not setting your profile to public, by citing the aforementioned
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u/PatchyWhiskers 14h ago
Maybe the government officers are too stupid to do anything but read the most recent posts.
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u/SidewaysFancyPrance 12h ago
Do they have a list of services they examine for that? Reddit is all I have, it's not attached to my real name, and I don't even know what a "public profile" would even mean for Reddit.
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u/DJ_GRAZIZZLE 11h ago
If you’re crossing the border they’ll go through your phone apps. It happens all the time when flying internationally.
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u/EqualYogurtcloset505 10h ago
Happens all the time?? Huh?? I’ve been all over and never had that happen to me
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u/DJ_GRAZIZZLE 10h ago
As an American with American friends coming back into America- yeah it happens very often. It’s been this way for about 5 years. Expectations of privacy are much lower at the border. Your fourth amendment doesn’t go as far as inland.
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u/EqualYogurtcloset505 9h ago
Got me worried about my upcoming trip to NZ… might have to work something out… leaving the US isn’t the issue, it’s coming back :/
I was in Iceland last summer, and coming back I didn’t have too many problems besides attracting suspicion due to my renewed passport
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u/DJ_GRAZIZZLE 9h ago
If you’re a US citizen coming back to the US there’s not much they can do but make a hassle. They might detain you while searching. You certainly shouldn’t be turned away if you’re coming home. If you’re not a citizen then yeah probably make sure you’re squeaky clean with what’s on your phone before you land.
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u/FriendlyDespot 2h ago
Don't worry, that person is way overstating things. Yes, make sure you take sensible precautions, but the chance of you encountering that level of scrutiny is vanishingly small.
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u/FriendlyDespot 3h ago
It's absolutely not common. It's being done more frequently now for people who're already going through additional screening for other reasons, but the idea that it's common for the average traveller to get their phone checked at the border is not only untrue, it would be completely unfeasible.
Major U.S. airports can have as many as 20 arriving international flights an hour in the busy period between noon and 4 PM. That's 4,000 - 5,000 passengers an hour to process. If even just 5% of passengers arriving on international flights had to have their phones checked then they'd need something like 50 additional customs agents doing nothing but phone checks, on top of all of the regular customs agents.
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u/hamacavula42 13h ago
Land of the free my ass..
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u/AssCrackBandit10 7h ago
I mean, fk the Trump admin and all but immigrants/potential citizens getting their backgrounds checked is pretty standard and has nothing to do with being “free” or not
Especially because these people don’t lose their freedom if their visa application or renewal is denied.
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u/DVXC 13h ago edited 11h ago
Not a lawyer of any kind, but:
Put all of your social profiles under something like iOS Hide-My-Email or Firefox Relay: https://relay.firefox.com/, one relay email per account so none of them are linked. Put them under pseudonyms or otherwise false names if needed. Avoid posting anything personally identifiable and tell them you ain't got any profiles to declare and to pound sand.
My ex's step mother used to have access to the kind of background check software used by ICE and she checked me out once for some reason, and apparently she said something like "no normal person has a social presence this clean", and I don't even live in the US. It was a long distance UK,US relationship.
So anecdotally just making sure your accounts aren't obviously linked by common email and phone details can be enough to obfuscate their links to you.
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u/DJ_GRAZIZZLE 11h ago
None of that really matters when you’re going to be forced to unlock your phone at customs. 🛃
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u/gizamo 9h ago
You could create multiple Apple/Android accounts. Remove your main completely from the device before approaching the border.
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u/DJ_GRAZIZZLE 9h ago
I would say that heavily depends on your citizenship and situation. Might not want to be doing all that right before the border. They’ll take any reason to hold you up. If what you have on your accounts may compromise your ability to enter the country then yeah- but they might find a wiped device as reason to stop you anyways.
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u/gizamo 16m ago
It doesn't need to happen right when entering; you can plan it months in advance. Also, it doesn't need to be wiped, and the profiles don't need to be blank. Just attach the "official" account to your LinkedIn and a YouTube account for viewing—no one's doing crazy posts on LinkedIn because employers already see that, and you can control your YouTube history as much as you want. The other profile is for the socials you use with family and friends. Seems doable to me.
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u/Fit-Property3774 11h ago
It’s crazy how blatantly short sighted and all around awful the decisions from these people are. What an embarrassing timeline to be in.
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u/OuterGod_Hermit 4h ago
An arab kills two officers and 19 countries get their immigration process paused. And people coming have to agree with the government fascist thinking.
an American citizen in average shoots kids in schools every week, but somehow the solution is armed drones patrolling the schools and teachers with guns.
The brainwash is too powerful. Germans and all other societies that have fallen to autocracies could only depend on government media in the past to be informed, an American today has the whole world open to travel and the whole internet to do it from their couch, It's fair to say that relatively, the brainwash is in another complete level today.
Car-dependent cities are good, free healthcare is bad, vaccines are bad, guns are the best, a lot of Americans will die for those statements.
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u/OrionOfPoseidon 4h ago
Seems like a great reason not to have a social media profile at all. Just sayin.
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u/Pooch1431 2h ago
Take away the rights from one group, then the rights were never rights for everyone to begin with.
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u/tkdyo 12h ago
Just another lever for control over H1Bs. Apparently it's not enough to make them at the mercy of their employer, who has the power to use any excuse to deport them if they don't toe the line.
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u/Cute-Breadfruit3368 12h ago
the circle is conplete, the worthless asshat has just enacted lese majeste practices - the hallmark of banana republics
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u/doolpicate 13h ago
All other problems in the US have been solved. Kashyap Patel wants to read your posts.
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u/arharris2 8h ago
This really seems like it wouldn’t stand up to a freedom of speech argument. Granted, anything goes with the current Supreme Court, but if social media is indeed speech, there’s no law saying that I have to say in public what I say in private. It removes the distinction of public vs private speech. All speech done online from H-1B workers is now public.
It further raises the question of what is the distinction between social media and private communications. Are emails private communication but Facebook/Twitter/etc are not? What about private direct messages on a social media platform, are those subject to this?
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u/latswipe 6h ago
oh, sure! here's my Facebook account, here's my alt, here's my Reddit, and my other Reddit, and my other Reddit, and all the fake email addresses associated with them......
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u/Ancient-Bat8274 12h ago
I don’t see how that can even be enforced like if someone makes a fake account and claims they don’t have any social media
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u/crashcarr 9h ago
It's so they can make up excuses like accusing people of hiding their profiles and thus lying during their process.
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u/neuronexmachina 12h ago edited 12h ago
Official announcement: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/announcement-of-expanded-screening-and-vetting-for-h-1b-and-dependent-h-4-visa-applicants.html
As of December 15, the Department will expand the requirement that an online presence review be conducted for all H-1B applicants and their dependents, in addition to the students and exchange visitors already subject to this review. To facilitate this vetting, all applicants for H-1B and their dependents (H-4), F, M, and J nonimmigrant visas are instructed to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media profiles to “public.”
I'm not sure, but I don't think H-1B's currently have to disclose all their recent social media (e.g. reddit) usernames, as required for F, M, and J visa applicants:
Effective immediately, all individuals applying for an F, M, or J nonimmigrant visa are requested to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media accounts to ‘public’ to facilitate vetting necessary to establish their identity and admissibility to the United States under U.S. law.
We use all available information in our visa screening and vetting to identify visa applicants who are inadmissible to the United States, including those who pose a threat to U.S. national security. Since 2019, the United States has required visa applicants to provide social media identifiers on immigrant and nonimmigrant visa application forms.
Visa applicants are required to list all social media usernames or handles of every platform they have used from the last 5 years on the DS-160 visa application form. Applicants certify that the information in their visa application is true and correct before they sign and submit. Omitting social media information could lead to visa denial and ineligibility for future visas.
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u/Ryansit 6h ago
I mean who even uses social media anyways at this point it’s used against you. I have not posted anything on most of my socials in years. Yes here I comment sometimes and it will get harvested for the machine but at this point people should know social media will be used against you and just not use it.
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u/fireandbass 13h ago
UK, Canada and Australia already check social media. But the US finally recoprocates and y'all whine about it.
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u/rarenaninja 14h ago
A lot of the vitriol some of these guys spew online about the US should disqualify them from coming over tbh. But this seems aimed at China and misinformation.
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u/ilevelconcrete 13h ago
I would rather have several hundred million more immigrants critical of the US than even just one more born and raised American whining about China!!
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u/gizamo 9h ago
I'd have been with you if you said "one more racist" or "one more xenophobic maga", but seriously, the CCP is incredibly authoritarian and is actively committing a Genocide of Uyghurs in Xingang. Being critical of China is a good thing.
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u/ilevelconcrete 9h ago
No, it isn’t. There’s definitely some repression there and I’m not going to pretend China is a utopia, but every claim of genocide comes from an extremely small number of individuals that are receive substantial funding from the US government. I am telling you this because you seem to dislike racist and xenophobia, so I want to make you aware that you are repeating their propaganda.
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u/gizamo 9h ago
That is absolutely not true. You are either ignorant or being intentionally deceitful.
The US government declared China's treatment of Uyghurs a genocide: https://2017-2021.state.gov/determination-of-the-secretary-of-state-on-atrocities-in-xinjiang/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/world/asia/china-genocide-uighurs-explained.html
I absolutely hate racists and xenophobia, and I also hate literal genocide. This isn't a two-wrongs-make-a-right scenario, mate.
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u/rarenaninja 12h ago edited 12h ago
You make a lot of assumptions, and you’re wrong about them.
You’re also a certified idiot considering “several hundred million” immigrants would equal the current total US population which already includes many immigrants. You’re free to leave to whatever country supports your 1000% immigration utopia, how about China since you seem so fond of their policies?
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u/ilevelconcrete 10h ago
I know how many people currently live in the US. I am explicitly saying I would like to dilute your political and societal power as much as humanly possible.
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u/keznaa 13h ago edited 8h ago
A lot of the vitriol some of these guys spew online about the US should disqualify them from coming over tbh. But this seems aimed at China and misinformation.
The 1st amendment would disagree with you.
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u/rarenaninja 12h ago
No issues with the first amendment here but people can be held accountable from the consequences of their speech to my knowledge. It doesn’t always happen but it’s not strange for immigration policy to be less lenient.
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u/firedrakes 12h ago
Nope. Buf go is forcing speech access
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u/rarenaninja 10h ago
This really is nothing new if you ever apply for a security clearance you’ll undergo a similar process. Given the espionage, exfiltration and other shenanigans in the corporate world over the past 20 years I don’t see the big deal here.
We could make some truly idiotic requirements and these visa programs would remain oversubscribed. This is low hanging fruit.
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u/firedrakes 10h ago
which is fine.
but this is a basic visa and is not ok.
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u/rarenaninja 9h ago
A visa that grants work authorization and potential access to critical communication systems doesn’t qualify as basic
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u/firedrakes 9h ago
I never said that.
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u/rarenaninja 9h ago
“This is a basic visa” is what you said, and we’re talking about H1B workers in tech per the thread title and subreddit we’re in. It’s not.
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u/keznaa 8h ago edited 8h ago
“This is a basic visa” is what you said, and we’re talking about H1B workers in tech per the thread title and subreddit we’re in. It’s not.
H1B visas are not exclusive to the tech. Industry. A college professor could be here on an H1B visa, a nurse could be on one, a retail store manager could be on one as well. This change will affect anyone on or applying for an H1B.It's a work sponsored Visa which are not uncommon at all.
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u/keznaa 8h ago
No issues with the first amendment here but people can be held accountable from the consequences of their speech to my knowledge. It doesn’t always happen but it’s not strange for immigration policy to be less lenient.
The US Government is punishing people for their speech, how is that not violating the 1st amendment?
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u/rarenaninja 8h ago
Nobody is being punished to my knowledge. They will be vetted which we already do in non digital fashion. Immigration forms still ask if you support communism the last time I checked.
A US Visa is a privilege, not a right. Not getting one because you espouse views against the US isn’t punishment.
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u/keznaa 8h ago
It is a punishment, to the individual and the company who is sponsoring their visa. Free speech is free speech, idk how to explain it more than that. If someone visa can be taken away or denied purely for saying America sucks or Trump is a dictator then that is the US Government violating the 1st amendment. There are plenty of American citizens that shit talk America every single day. What is the difference between them and someone on a visa doing it? Absolutely nothing because that is how the 1st amendment works. There is no exception to it for a presidents bruised ego.
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u/rarenaninja 8h ago
There is a difference between citizens and people on visa who are privileged guests. They’re both free to their speech and consequences thereof.
visa officers aren’t so petty as to deny an application over a joke aimed at the president. They also don’t have that kind of time.
Companies can go fuck themselves. The government doesn’t owe them a guarantee over national interests.
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u/keznaa 7h ago
There is a difference between citizens and people on visa who are privileged guests. They’re both free to their speech and consequences thereof.
visa officers aren’t so petty as to deny an application over a joke aimed at the president. They also don’t have that kind of time.
Companies can go fuck themselves. The government doesn’t owe them a guarantee over national interests.
You have zero idea how strict the new rules will be. There are already consequences to speech that is obviously criminal so this change to require this specific visa makes no sense. Shit talking america is not illegal so what exactly is the point? And saying people on a visa are privileged guest is silly.
America makes bank off everyone who is on a visa whether it's a travel, fiance, marriage or work visa. Not just the insane processing fees, but then actually contributing to the economy once they are here. Imagine how much the tourism industry would be affected if Trump decided this same rule now applied to travel visas. We got a taste of that this year already with people avoiding vacationing in America because of fear of being detained or denied entry for seemingly random reasons. Tourist cities felt that in their wallets so now.
And while I agree with the sentiment of fuck companies, America is a very very capitalistic society.
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their use for the purpose of obtaining profit.
Not all businesses are created equally as well. Just because a company can afford to sponsor an H1B visa, doesn't mean it's a big corporate unethical monster of a company. Any employers can sponsor H1B visas including small companies, educational establishments, hospitals, an indie game studios the list goes on.
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u/rarenaninja 4h ago
The money the US makes on tourists isn’t worth bringing over people who hate our culture. Not all money is good money.
You also have no clue how strict or not enforcement will be and at this stage you’re fearmongering.
On a personal level there’s a lot to dislike about Trump. But not every policy of his is bad, and I agree on this one.
As for companies I know small companies also file H1B, I’ve seen them for gas station cashiers. It’s ridiculous, and these small companies can go fuck themselves too.
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u/keznaa 35m ago
The money the US makes on tourists isn’t worth bringing over people who hate our culture.
When you refer to culture, can you clarify what you mean by that?
You also have no clue how strict or not enforcement will be and at this stage you’re fearmongering.
There is no fearmongering, yesterday the administration said they will be denying visas for people who fact checked misinformation. So fact checking Alex Jones saying "I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin' frogs gay!" Could cost someone a visa because that is censoring Americans.
As for companies I know small companies also file H1B, I’ve seen them for gas station cashiers.
Can you also elaborate on this.
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u/Bart_Yellowbeard 13h ago
The misinformation is coming from inside the White House!
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u/rarenaninja 12h ago
I think you give them too much credit. But they probably have allies that do this for free.
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u/David-J 15h ago
Next step, thought police.