The new requests from the administration of Donald Trump for travel visas in the United States entered into force on Tuesday 2 September. According to the lawyer Flavia Santos Lloyd, an expert in immigrant rights, the hardening of admission measures in the country perhaps reveals “the mentality did not come that not all people must come to the United States”.
The new requests from the administration of Donald Trump for travel visas in the United States entered into force on Tuesday 2 September. According to the lawyer Flavia Santos Lloyd, an expert in immigrant rights, the hardening of admission measures in the country perhaps reveals “the mentality did not come that not all people must come to the United States”.
Cleide Klock, RFI correspondent in Los Angeles
The main change compared to this month of September is that all citizens of countries who need Visa, including Brazilians, should plan a face -to -face interview with a consular officer, including those below 14 and those who have been fired so far.
Since June, the United States Department of State has asked those who asked students and exchange students’ visas, to keep their accounts from social networks public, “in order to facilitate the necessary verification”.
“We are experiencing a nationalist moment in which the interior of the United States is considered more important than other countries and relations with other countries. Therefore this movement of the State Department is completely consistent with the internal and external policy of the United States government,” says Flavia Lloyd.
“The highest visa value, the fact that people should go to the interviews, open the social network and, if not open, the case will not be approved, is a movement of exclusion. Perhaps the mentality is that not all people must come to the United States”, underlines the lawyer.
Political positions weigh on the selection decisions
With 23 years of experience in the Immigration Law sector in California, Flavia Lloyd is worried about the digital activity of the Brazilians, who are used to freely manifesting their political opinions on social networks. In a Memorandum published in July, the United States Department of State, which is responsible for consulates and embassies, said new guidelines: “We reverberate their opinions and, if their opinions are not aligned with the government or have an anti -American sensation or something that affects foreign policy of the United States, this can be used for Visa Denial”.
In the past, this verification of the comments published on the networks has focused on terrorists, in suspicious people who expressed negative feelings against the United States. According to the lawyer, the wider analysis of the opinions of each citizen who wants to enter the United States “is a great watershed” compared to previous practices.
Flavia Lloyd discovers that the communication of the current administration, also for people who have American citizenship, work or visa of residence and who have not committed crimes, causes a great feeling of fear and insecurity. “I think the message and the way it is communicated -” look, we are opening a denaturalization unit, we make citizenship from people ” – have an impact on those who in the country and for those who want to come here”, says the jurist.
Visa revocation
As for the people who receive and -mail who say that the visa has been canceled, Flavia Lloyd recalls that the practice of revoking visas has always existed, especially if it was linked to a sort of legal violation and historical crime. However, the staircase in which it is taking place is considered unprecedented.
The lawyer recommends Brazilians to receive this type of notification “to try to understand what happened, checking their profile and their family members on social networks and other sources of public information, to see if it is worth (or not) to reapply the visa request”.
Source: Terra
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