Comment by rustyhancock
12 hours ago
It's also quite surprising that all socials need to be declared. And presumably them AI vetted in time for you to get to the border.
12 hours ago
It's also quite surprising that all socials need to be declared. And presumably them AI vetted in time for you to get to the border.
This part is pretty new. I wonder if my former colleagues have done any FOIA work looking into how travelers' disclosed social media accounts have been reviewed or analyzed!
You also have to provide every single email account you have used in the last ten years, all of them, forgetting to declare one is an offense.
There's no chances I can remember them all, especially as I've been contracting and get a new email every 3-4 months or so.
It's reasonable for a country to want to know if you're likely to abuse your visa.
Eg your socials might show you are a professional paid speaker at conferences. If you applied for a tourist visa that would be reasonable to flag you and ask you if you have paid gigs on the wrong visa.
Europe will also ask the same questions for foreigners. If you're a young woman travelling on your own you can expect questions to challenge if you might be earning money as a nanny on a visitor visa. Checking their phone messages to see if they've been making arrangements to this effect is a very straightforward way to determine intent.
Not everything is an evil conspiracy.