Would you definitely leave someone in your house without conditions? Of course not. If even a invited guest became noisy, your kitchen threw away, took over your bathroom, insulted your religion or invited their friends to set up tents on your lawn, you would pack them.
Similarly, no nation may be forced to admit people who hate that country and its values. Visa are a privilege, not right.
Moreover, foreigners who visit, study or work here have fewer rights and more limited “appropriate process” than citizens – as they should. The rights and responsibilities of American citizenship must be held to a much higher standard, not weakened and “given” to those with less immigration Status or skin in the game.
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I was an American foreign service provider of 1999-2022, and my first tour was to our embassy in New Delhi, India. We officers on the “Visa line” Did about 150 interviews per day to determine whether Indian applicants were qualified to come to the US. If the communication systems fall, we had to rely on CDs that were weeks old to check the names.
Foreign students are unique risks and opportunities, but thanks to new technology we can check their messages on social media before approving their visits. (Istock)
All September 11, 2001 were hijackers in the United States on non-immigrant visa; usually tourist/visitor visa, although there was at least one Student visa. The world became a lot more risky and the US had to adapt to the way we had admitted foreigners.
The mass report of 9/11 committee reported inefficiencies and meshes in the way American intelligence and national security Agencies collaborated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to check the names, birth dates and other personal information of applicants before they issue this visas.
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In response, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Forms added and more information from each applicant names, so we knew as much as possible about who wanted to come to our country and why. State also improved the way in which information was shared and screened by the rest of the American government, so that everything we knew collectively about a John Q. Foreigner was considered before we left him in the country.
The change in process delayed things first, but then we adjusted and increased efficiency. The entire application process is now being done online, where entered data is combined with a photo and fingerprints for each person.
Nowadays everyone is online, especially younger people. Every student application has a smartphone and most likely several social media accounts. What we post online reflects who we are. Anonymity is an illusion – one should not post things that you are ashamed of or you want to hide.
As every consular officer will tell you, some people are in visa interviews. We have something they want: a visa to get to the United States. They may not lie to their mother or priest, but lying against a foreign official is a much lesser sin.
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In view of that reality, and the wealth of information that is available online that really reflects a person, consular officers would ideally allen all the social media of the applicants. Until now, the limitations of the workforce – with an individual human access and you look through the many accounts of each applicant and possibly thousands of posts – that priceless, except in cases that were considered worthy. Consular units in American embassies have fraud prevention units, but they are not manned to handle every case. Nor can any case be increased for checking by other American agencies.
The growing capacity of artificial intelligence (AI) will make screening on social media and broader screening, possibly for more applicants.
It makes sense to start with students, because they are in our country much longer than someone who visits Disneyland or attend a business meeting. Most students come to obtain at least a four -year -old Bachelor’s diploma, and many remain to get jobs and to become legal inhabitants and perhaps later citizens.
If well done, Review social media Will not delay the visa process. It will not keep out most applicants who are planning to come here for a specific, valid goal, tell us the truth and hold on to their word.
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But people who, on a combined, criminal, violent, anti-American, anti -Semitic, Or anti-capitalist content does not make good visitors, students or future Americans. When I see some messages from people here on Studentvisa, or to become Americans, I wish some of them had never received a visa.
Such as Momodou Language, which seemed to spend most of his time at Cornell University with protests, buildings without occupying permission and ‘becoming difficult for Gaza’. During a protest in 2024 he said: “We do not take our cue from some nonsense*t Student Assembly in Cornell. … We take our cue from the armed resistance in Palestine.” Cornell refused to suspend him because they did not want him deported.
Nowadays everyone is online, especially younger people. Every student application has a smartphone and most likely several social media accounts. What we post online reflects who we are. Anonymity is an illusion – one should not post things that you are ashamed of or you want to hide.
Given that our colleges are willing to defend those who hate the West, capitalism and our allies, defending the national interest is to those who spend Visa. It is quite possible that an assessment of the social media of language before they have published his visa would not have unveiled and that we have saved to have to promote another job for another “Africana studies”.
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Then there is Kishan Kumar Singh, Mahammadilham Vahora and Hajiali Vahora, and Vedantkumar Bhupenbhai Patel, who were all apparently to study here when they were arrested in the entire country because they were reportedly tried to wave their money out of their money. What have their social media show?
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Look at Chinese students In particular, in particular, a future Shenghua Wen could stop – the Chinese student who crossed his student visa in 2012, stopped school and apparently went to Noord -Korea in business shipping arms. Chinese students are caught smuggling in suspicious items and investigating that the VRC can benefit and undermine the US with alarming frequency.
The US already have more than a million foreign students here and spend almost half a million more of such visas every year. Getting rid of a few that are more planning to riot, protest or to do snode research than obtaining a diploma will encourage the rest to respect our country and our rules.
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