Korean students seek 'digital undertakers' amid US visa social media screening

I don't get why the US thought that it'd be a good idea to vet social media accounts for visa applications. If someone's having ill intent, one could easily create a burner account and fill in some random content for the sake of getting thru the visa application. Or they could even just purchase an account somewhere on the internet.

Sad to see what US has become.

Doing that would be visa fraud.

Why create any rule if ppl can commit fraud anyways?

Why ask for educational qualifications for h1b because ppl can create fake certificates( many do) ?

Would it? What makes aSM account "official"? If I make a burner account, it's still my account.

you have reveal all social media accounts not one of your choosing.

ppl commenting here without even checking the basics :(

Entry can be denied if you claim to have no social media accounts, so you can in fact only give one of your choosing to gain entry.

Whether not disclosing any others is visa fraud is a matter of legal consideration iff other accounts are discovered before the collapse of the current administration.

fraud is only fraud iff its discovered?

are you a bot ? i am having hard time believing a normal adult human would come up with that .

There are plenty of things that are only "legal thing" once they are officially judged to be so. An obvious (to a layman HNer) crime isn't one until legally declared so.

The same standard applies to many of the apparently unconstitutional actions of the current administration.

Please stop with the paranoid "bot" nonsense, my account is over a decade older than yours is.

> An obvious (to a layman HNer) crime isn't one until legally declared so.

ok so what? Go ahead commit fraud in visa applications?

plenty do already and get visas approved, like i said in my own comment. I've seen ppl get h1b/f1 visas based on fake education certifications.

ppl already know that they can commit fraud. So again, what is that you are even saying?