New Social Media Question on DS-160 and DS-260 Visa Applications

Following the 2017 Presidential Memorandum, the Department of State had published a notice in the Federal Register last year explaining its plans to add several additional questions for nonimmigrant visa applicants, including a question listing multiple social media platforms and requiring the applicant to provide any identifiers (handles) used by applicants for those platforms during the five years preceding the date of application. Initially, the Department of State began using a supplemental questionnaire, Form DS-5535, requiring only some visa applicants who have been flagged for further review to provide their social media information. Department of State consular officers will use the information collected in the visa adjudication process with partner U.S. government agencies to determine certain applicants’ eligibility for a visa under existing statutory grounds of inadmissibility, so as to more rigorously evaluate the security and related visa ineligibilities.

Source: immigrationgirl.com