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Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check

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Re: Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check

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Social media handles > The Trump administration has rolled out a new questionnaire for U.S. visa applicants worldwide that asks for social media handles for the last five years and biographical information going back 15 years. Including social media handles is quite different than what the title implies with "accounts" Edit: Yay the post title was fixed!

What the fuck is a 'handle' ?

Re: Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check

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Submitting a complete record of 15 years of travel history would be quite challenging to many people, to say the least.

Ya, do they want exact dates? F*ck if I know. I have trouble remember what dates I'm in the states when asked on my tax return, or when I was in California when asked on my state tax return.

I could try to figure it out via my passport stamps, I guess, at least for those countries that actually still stamp.

Re: Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check

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post #18

Social media handles > The Trump administration has rolled out a new questionnaire for U.S. visa applicants worldwide that asks for social media handles for the last five years and biographical information going back 15 years. Including social media handles is quite different than what the title implies with "accounts" Edit: Yay the post title was fixed!

What the fuck is a 'handle' ?

1024core in your case

Re: Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check

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Submitting a complete record of 15 years of travel history would be quite challenging to many people, to say the least.

I applied for an Indian visa a couple months ago. The page gave me 100 characters to list countries I'd visited in the previous few years. If I used 2 letter abbreviations and skipped the commas I could have just about done it. As it stands I started at NZ and moved west. Ran out of space just before listing Pakistan. Oh well.

> Ran out of space just before listing Pakistan. Oh well.

I know jokes aren't allowed on HN, but this is great :)

Re: Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check

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post #18

Social media handles > The Trump administration has rolled out a new questionnaire for U.S. visa applicants worldwide that asks for social media handles for the last five years and biographical information going back 15 years. Including social media handles is quite different than what the title implies with "accounts" Edit: Yay the post title was fixed!

What the fuck is a 'handle' ?

I see you over there AbercrombieBoy69

Re: Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I applied for an Indian visa a couple months ago. The page gave me 100 characters to list countries I'd visited in the previous few years. If I used 2 letter abbreviations and skipped the commas I could have just about done it. As it stands I started at NZ and moved west. Ran out of space just before listing Pakistan. Oh well.

Why do you visit so many countries?

I have hippie friends that just travel. He works remote part time as a frontend dev, she makes jewelery. The have one kid and another one on its way.

They often wonder why so many people don't visit any other countries, to see how other people live, gain understanding, experience and love.

Re: Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I applied for an Indian visa a couple months ago. The page gave me 100 characters to list countries I'd visited in the previous few years. If I used 2 letter abbreviations and skipped the commas I could have just about done it. As it stands I started at NZ and moved west. Ran out of space just before listing Pakistan. Oh well.

Why do you visit so many countries?

That's nobody's business. Maybe s/he likes to travel. Especially if you're in EU where there are practically no borders west of Russia, you can visit dozens of countries without sweat.

Re: Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media check

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Submitting a complete record of 15 years of travel history would be quite challenging to many people, to say the least.

Or giving the passport numbers of every passport you've ever held. I have the last two, but no idea of any before that.
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