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
Then again, I walked by the Sean Collier memorial most every day when I worked at MIT. I joined the staff shortly the marathon bombing so I never met officer Collier, but it was a daily reminder.
The 9/11 bombers were here on F-1 Student Visas.
Screening of FNs at the border is just fine with me. Having traveled to Israel for work, we are pretty lax at the border here for business and leisure trawlers.
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