Nowhere are questions about the couple's sex life asked about.
The only question is if the person has been a sex worker (which is good to know to see if the person is being sex trafficked). They are asked about criminal record, sold drugs, or been a terrorist.
Yes the person does a medical exam.
The person does list their assets and work history.
America is actually pretty lax when it comes to financial support. The person petitioning for their spouse or would be spouse only has to earn 125% of the fed poverty line, that is less than $25k a year or about $12 an hour.
Nothing is inhuman in the questions asked and hardly different than what most other countries ask for.
But this doesn't make for a good click-bait story, so some 'journalists' need to make vague insinuations to the contrary.
The system can be improved for sure but so much of what is alluded to just isn't accurate.
I had lived in the US for 7 years on visas before I could apply for a green card. It was only that point that the system asked for a medical to get inoculated and check if I had any communicable diseases like HIV or TB. That definitely seemed inhuman.
My own doctor couldn't do it, and previous medicals didn't count. I'd already had 7 years to transmit those diseases; a test prior to moving to the US would have made more sense. And with all of that, testing positive wouldn't even disqualify me, I'd just have to get treatment ... it just seems so laughably idiotic. Putting people through a Kafka-esque routine because immigration politics have been dysfunctional for half a century.
The tests you're describing are for immigrant visas (Green Card IS a visa).
Non-immigrant visas don't require those tests. Why? I don't know. Clearly there are differences that don't make sense, but I'm assuming it's more related to how the law worked out in the end vs actual malice.
Also, a lot of these GC medical questionnaires more focused on people bringing in family members from oversees (as in sponsor them), and much less for people converting from a non-immigrant visa to an immigrant one.
The answer to why is racism. The immigration rules in US are designed in a similar way to previous black voter literacy rules. A lot of leeway for the bureaucrat to reject, a lot of unnecessary burden of proof on the applicant also to make it easy to miss the deadlines and introduce a cost barrier. (No, these tests are not free.)
I don't know. As a non-US Citizen it a privilege to be in the USA. Not a right. As such they are well within their rights to only allow smart people in. Countries have sovereignty.
An illiterate white person would have exactly the same problem as what you describe.
Brush up on the history of those racist literacy tests please. They were not actually testing literacy.
Likewise this immigration law is not about letting people in or not, that's the visa which is much more lax. And often follows another more temporary visa.
Benefits of being a US citizen are some, but not really enough in comparison to just being in the US which needs only the visa. (Especially business/employee visa.)
It's not a test for intelligence either, unless you explain to me how you need to be smart to be in a relationship. Stable employment (of one of the partners) is something, I guess, if it's checked, but that's a different immigration visa that is quite limited. The check for language is done at visa application... (See point of people already having a previous visa, usually.)
> An illiterate white person would have exactly the same problem as what you describe.
The standard for the "literacy tests" was roughly that you were exempt if your pre-1861 ancestors were allowed to vote.
Edit to add: The test questions were along the lines of "Name all of the judges in your state's circuit court" or [0]; note that both selecting the passage and judging the answers was left to the county registrar, and that it was left to their discretion whether it was necessary to administer the test to any given individual.
