The Donald Trump administration has abruptly postponed pre-scheduled interviews of thousands of H-1B visa applicants in the country, according to reports. The affected applicants had their interviews originally scheduled from mid-December but they are now postponed to March-May 2026.

The move has been attributed to the US federal government's move to vet social media profiles of the applicants.

What is social media vetting?

While reviewing the visa application, the US immigration officials will go through the publicly available data on all the social media handles used by them in the past five years. This is to identify potential security risks or verify information submitted in applications to determine whether the individual should be allowed in the US.

Most of the affected applicant

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