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Please - someone explain the logic behind these proposed requirements for EUROPEANS to visit the USA.


Insanely, submitting your past 5 years' social media to enter the U.S. as a tourist is only a small part of the proposed upcoming requirements.

You'll also need to give your DNA (!) among many other new requirements.

All the additional info you'll need to give as a tourist eligible for ESTA (meaning those tourists who don't need a visa, for instance from EU, UK, Australia, Japan, and other Visa Waiver countries):

- All social media accounts from the last 5 years
- All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
- All your phone numbers from the last 5 years
- All your email addresses from the last 10 years
- IP addresses and metadata from your submitted photos
- Names of your family members (parents, spouse, siblings, children)
- All your family members' phone numbers from the last 5 years
- Your family members' dates of birth
- Your family members' places of birth
- Your family members' residencies
- All your business phone numbers from the last 5 years
- All your business email addresses from the last 10 years

If you do need a visa (i.e. non ESTA), I imagine the requirements are going to be far more drastic.

This is straight from the Department of Homeland Security documentation which you can find here: https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf