Uncle Sam Now Wants Your TikTok Handle for Immigration Approval?
Published Date: 3/5/2025
Notice
Summary
The Department of Homeland Security is planning to start collecting social media handles on immigration forms to help verify identities and keep the country safe. This change affects anyone applying for immigration benefits and aims to improve security checks without adding big costs or delays. People can share their thoughts on this new idea until May 5, 2025.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
USCIS will collect social media handles
If you apply for an immigration benefit, USCIS proposes to collect your social media identifier(s) ("handles") and the names of the social media platforms on immigration forms. USCIS says this information will be used for identity verification, national security and public-safety screening, vetting, and related inspections as required by Executive Order 14161.
Which forms and how many people it affects
USCIS identifies specific forms that will include social media identifier(s): N-400 (909,700 respondents), I-131 (1,073,059), I-192 (68,050), I-485 (1,060,585), I-589 (203,379), I-590 (106,200), I-730 (13,000), I-751 (140,000), and I-829 (1,010). For each listed collection USCIS estimates an average burden of 0.08 hour per response.
Estimated aggregate burden and no monetary cost
USCIS estimates the total annual hour burden for this collection is 285,999 hours and states the estimated total annual cost burden to the public is $0. Comments on this new collection are due by May 5, 2025.
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