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US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas
(www.thejournal.ie)
Holy crap. How is this even real?
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2025
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I can wait for @SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to share those moths post for his embassy appointment
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This is why I’ve already deleted basically everything, social media is a cancer that pushes us further and further apart and replaces meaningful interactions with vapid and shallow counterfeit interactions, it’s a net loss for anyone using it at this point.
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I guess we can finally get clarification on whether or not forums are social media.
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Oh look, fake social media accounts used. Fantastic. No gaps here!
I barely remember this username and I'm looking at it every time I post something.
Going there with a crappy handwritten letter including all 40’000 throw-away users I ever created
/s
Who TF wants to set foot in that shithole banana republic anyway?
Stuff your visa, and return the favor and stay TF out of other people's countries.
That would be a welcome change.
welcome to Autocracy ladies and gentlemen, sit back, grab some popcorn and pay attention to your neighbours, some might start dissappearing soon
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Good luck. NYS couldn't even keep track of this requirement just for CCW permits.
Oh no, I might have to lie to the government
But sir, the form only has space for four!
I haven't get my #viss, but since last year I was thinking about it. With these news and for what you see from the #USA, there is no way that I'll throw myself into that humilliation
Oh well, I wouldn't have been welcome anyway, seeing I've had the audacity to be critical of Israeli ~~genocide~~ defense, TACO and Daddy Put-it-in.
Guess I'll go spend my tourist money elsewhere.
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