US demands social media details from visa applicants
As any US Visa applicant can attest to, the DS-160 is already some of the most annoying form you have to fill - in fact for most people it&#x27;s less pleasurable than doing 1040.<p>In addition to asking for details of every school you went to, every job you had, every country you&#x27;ve been to, they ask you questions like this:<p>&gt;&gt; Have you ever violated, or engaged in a conspiracy to violate, any law relating to controlled substances?<p>&gt;&gt; Are you coming to the United States to engage in prostitution or unlawful commercialized vice or have you been engaged in prostitution or procuring prostitutes within the past 10 years?<p>&gt;&gt; Have you ever been involved in, or do you seek to engage in, money laundering?<p>&gt;&gt; Have you ever committed or conspired to commit a human trafficking offense in the United States or outside the United States?<p>&gt;&gt; Are you the spouse, son, or daughter of an individual who has committed or conspired to commit a human trafficking offense in the United States or outside the United States and have you within the last five years, knowingly benefited from the trafficking activities?<p>&gt;&gt; Have you knowingly aided, abetted, assisted or colluded with an individual who has committed or conspired to commit a severe human trafficking offense in the United States or outside the United States?<p>&gt;&gt; Do you seek to engage in espionage, sabotage, export control violations, or any other illegal activity while in the United States?<p>&gt;&gt; Do you seek to engage in terrorist activities while in the United States or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities?<p>&gt;&gt; Have you ever or do you intend to provide financial assistance or other support to terrorists or terrorist organizations?<p>&gt;&gt; Are you a member or representative of a terrorist organization?<p>&gt;&gt; Have you ever ordered, incited, committed, assisted, or otherwise participated in genocide?<p>&gt;&gt; Have you ever committed, ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in torture?<p>&gt;&gt; Have you committed, ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in extrajudicial killings, political killings, or other acts of violence?<p>&gt;&gt; Have you ever engaged in the recruitment or the use of the child soldiers?<p>&gt;&gt; Have you, while serving as a government official, been responsible for or directly carried out, at any time, particularly severe violations of religious freedom?<p>&gt;&gt; Have you ever been directly involved in the establishment or enforcement of the population controls forcing a woman to undergo an abortion against her free choice or a man or a woman to undergo sterilization against his or her free will?<p>&gt;&gt; Have you ever been directly involved in the coercive transplantation of human organs or bodily tissue?<p>And now, this.<p>And don&#x27;t get me started on the stupid fact that you cannot renew your US visa within the US, and in the end people on student&#x2F;work visas have to take the pointless trip to Canada&#x2F;Mexico just to get a new visa.<p>I hope someone eventually realizes visa applicants are people too.