The policy changes stem from a Presidential Memorandum issued by President Donald Trump in March 2017, which we also discuss on site. We discussed the previously issued Federal Register notices proposing the new information collections in a 2018 blog post. On May 31, 2019, the Department of State (DOS) updated its immigrant and nonimmigrant visa application forms to include a request for social media identifiers and other additional information from the majority of U.S. What Information is Being Requested Regarding Social Media Handles and Identifiers?.
