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Trump administration moves to make tougher U.S. visa vetting permanent
Reuters ^ | August 3, 2017 | by Yeganeh Torbati

Posted on 08/04/2017 6:41:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

The Trump administration moved on Thursday to make permanent a new questionnaire that asks some U.S. visa applicants to provide their social media handles and detailed biographical and travel history, according to a public notice.

The questionnaire was rolled out in May as part of an effort to tighten vetting of would-be visitors to the United States, and asks for all prior passport numbers, five years' worth of social media handles, email addresses and phone numbers and 15 years of biographical information including addresses, employment and travel history.

A State Department official declined to provide data on how many times the form had been used or which nationalities had been asked to fill it out since May, only stating that it estimates 65,000 visa applicants per year "will present a threat profile" that warrants the extra screening.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 115th; border; bordersecurity; immigration; immigrationvetting; invasion; raiseact; third100days; trump45; trumpimmigration; visa; visas

1 posted on 08/04/2017 6:41:16 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We all need to weigh in on this because the left will overwhelm the feedback that is being requested with negative remarks which can easily influence the decision.


2 posted on 08/04/2017 6:50:19 AM PDT by demkicker (My passion for freedom is stronger than that of Democrats whose obsession is to enslave me.)
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To: demkicker

How many here would want to provide your freeper handle in order to get a visa?


3 posted on 08/04/2017 9:26:58 AM PDT by aquila48
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