Recently U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued a memo to its immigration officers explaining how to do “unannounced cyber site-visits” on petitioners and beneficiaries of applications filed with the agency. That's right, Immigration wants to be Your Friend! Now Immigration intends t o look at your social network to check up on you, and possibly use what they find against you in an effort to deny your application. The memo advises immigration officers on how to set up profiles on social networking sites (e.g.. Facebook , Myspace , Hi5, Buzznet , etc.), and search for petitioner and beneficiaries on cases they are reviewing. This virtual visit, as detailed by USCIS , “provides an excellent vantage point for [immigration fraud investigators] to observe the daily life of beneficiaries and petitioners who are suspected of fraudulent activities.” You also need to understand that USCIS supposes that every petition presented to them is fraudulent, so USCIS ...
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