

At least they preserved the BSOD acronym.
At least they preserved the BSOD acronym.
Too many, at least for me personally
Feels like they do an awful lot of puns anymore.
I think it’s all some level of FUD until there’s an example of it being called out as a reason for denial. The fields have been on the application for a while, but I know someone who recently came in with a private ig profile and a vk profile that hadn’t been used for anything but chat. Wasn’t mentioned at all along the process beyond being on the application.
That may change soon, but it also might just be rhetoric from dipshits playing to their dipshit base.
Fair enough, though that’s an ask from the State Dept., not a demand from the embassy, as indicated in the OP. It’s an important distinction because the embassy holds the authority at that point in the process. They can ignore the guidance altogether or demand everyone open their profiles. They’re probably more likely to do the latter now, but they could’ve done this two years ago too.
Demanding the usernames for the past 5 years and being suspect of anyone not on social media isn’t a new, that was my main point. I don’t think many people appreciated how shitfucked our visa processes are, even before the current “administration” helping.
The username requirement isn’t anything new; that requirement was on our DS-160 years ago.
The “wants people to set their social media profiles to public” isn’t quoted, so seems less like an official policy anywhere and more like one embassy worker being a prick. Unfortunately, each individual embassy operates independently totally devoid of any accountability.
This process is dehumanizing, inefficient, and totally fucked…but this particular part of it has been this was for a long-ass time.
Not to imply it isn’t an asinine reason to ban you, but that’s not a complete sentence.
“The negotiations could have been a Signal chat” would be be, but what you have is a dependent clause that does not contain a verb indicating what the negotiations did.
Moderators of the .world news related communities giving me reddit flashbacks has been my least favorite thing about the fediverse so far.