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> Applicants can provide some but not all of the logins. Also, people will then turn to multiple accounts

If the form asks you for all your social-media handles, and you fail to list one, that's visa fraud.



Wonder how does that work... is HN considered a "social media site"? Is reddit?

If at some point I opened a throwaway reddit account to ask about the mole in my anus, does should I report that account? And if I forgot the handle, am i doing fraud omitting it?


> Wonder how does that work... is HN considered a "social media site"? Is reddit?

Practically, if you’re posting pro-Hamas content here and the guidelines wind up citing that as something they look for, yes.

> if I forgot the handle, am i doing fraud omitting it?

Fraud typically requires mens rea. Not legal advice. But I don’t think this would count as visa fraud.


That kind of ambiguity is a feature to them, not a bug. It means that every citizen naturalized under these rules will have to ponder what happens if USCIS starts digging into their application with specific intent to find a reason to consider it fraudulent, and self-censor accordingly.


Good thing those social media sites haven’t embedded themselves in with the administration and aren’t in a position to execute dragnets for secret accounts of visa applicants.


OK, so delete them before you fill out the form.




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