Urge the Department of Homeland Security to withdraw its proposed rule requiring travelers to disclose up to five years of social media history and urge the Department of State to end social media screening of non-immigrant visa applicants.
Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.
Occurrences
joined a letter led by Senator Jacky Rosen ... demanding that they withdraw a proposed rule requiring travelers to disclose up to five years of their social media history prior to traveling to the United States and end the State Department’s new practice of social media screening of non-immigrant visa applications.
Cortez Masto joined a Senate letter demanding that DHS withdraw a proposed traveler social-media disclosure rule and that State end social media screening for non-immigrant visa applicants.
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CBP published a 60-day notice for ESTA revisions, including mandatory social-media collection requiring ESTA applicants to provide social media from the last five years.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): This is the DHS/CBP policy the promise targeted. As of the official December 2025 notice, DHS was advancing the requirement, not withdrawing it. I found no official Cortez Masto letter, release, or legislative action urging withdrawal.
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The State Department notice proposed adding questions requiring nonimmigrant visa applicants to provide social-media identifiers used during the five years before application.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): This establishes the State Department nonimmigrant-visa social-media screening policy referenced in the promise. The record shows the policy was proposed and implemented rather than ended through Cortez Masto action.
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State says visa applicants must submit DS-160 for all nonimmigrant visa categories and consular officers use DS-160 information to process eligibility.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The current State Department DS-160 page confirms the nonimmigrant visa application remains the operative screening vehicle. This supports non-delivery because the promised effort to end screening is not reflected in current agency practice.
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State announced online presence review for all H-1B applicants and dependents, in addition to F, M, and J applicants already subject to review.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Rather than ending nonimmigrant visa social-media screening, State expanded it during Cortez Masto's later Senate service. No corresponding Cortez Masto action opposing or urging reversal was found.
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Effective March 30, State expanded online presence review to additional nonimmigrant visa classifications and instructed listed applicants to make social media public or open.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): As of March 25, 2026, State was further expanding online presence review across nonimmigrant visa categories. This is strong contrary evidence to the promised objective of ending social-media screening.
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U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined a letter
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Cortez Masto's official Senate office announced she joined a letter to DHS and State seeking withdrawal of the traveler social-media disclosure proposal and an end to nonimmigrant visa social-media screening.
we urge the Department of Homeland Security to withdraw its proposed rule
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The signed congressional letter includes the DHS withdrawal request; the signature block lists Catherine Cortez Masto as a United States Senator. The same letter also asks State to stop the nonimmigrant-visa social-media screening practice.
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Effective October 1, the Department of State will broaden its online presence review
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Within the lookback window, State announced further expansion of online presence review for additional nonimmigrant visa categories, showing the agency did not grant the requested policy endpoint even though Cortez Masto made the oversight request.
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Effective October 1, the Department of State will broaden its online presence review to cover applicants in the following additional nonimmigrant visa classifications: I (foreign media representatives), TN, and TD (USMCA professionals and their dependents).
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Within the lookback window, State updated its notice to expand online-presence review to additional nonimmigrant visa classifications, showing the requested State policy endpoint had not been achieved even after Cortez Masto's letter.
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Today, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined a letter led by Senator Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and co-signed by Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, demanding that they withdraw a proposed rule requiring travelers to disclose up to five years of their social media history prior to traveling to the United States and end the State Department’s new practice of social media screening of non-immigrant visa applications.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Cortez Masto's official Senate office says she joined a letter to DHS and State that directly demanded both withdrawal of the traveler social-media disclosure proposal and an end to State's nonimmigrant visa social-media screening practice.
With this in mind, we urge the Department of Homeland Security to withdraw its proposed rule, ask the Department of State to end its practice of screening the social media history of non-immigrant visa applicants, and ask for clarification on the following:
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The signed congressional letter contains the precise DHS withdrawal and State discontinuation requests described in the commitment; the letter's signature block lists Catherine Cortez Masto as a United States Senator.
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CBP is adding social media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application. The data element will require ESTA applicants to provide their social media from the last 5 years.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The Federal Register notice establishes the DHS/CBP proposal targeted by the commitment and shows the agency action Cortez Masto later urged DHS to withdraw.
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To support this vetting process, all applicants for I, TD, and TN nonimmigrant visas are instructed to set the privacy settings on all of their social media profiles to "public" or "open."
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): State's same lookback-window update instructed additional nonimmigrant visa applicants to make social media profiles public or open, further confirming that State continued rather than ended the screening practice after Cortez Masto's letter.
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Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined a letter led by Senator Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) and co-signed by Senators Peter Welch (D-Vt.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Cortez Masto's official Senate office confirms she joined the relevant oversight letter, which directly matches the commitment's promised action to urge DHS and State.
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With this in mind, we urge the Department of Homeland Security to withdraw its proposed rule, ask the Department of State to end its practice of screening the social media history of non-immigrant visa applicants
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The official release quotes the senators making both requested asks: DHS withdrawal of the proposed rule and State ending nonimmigrant-visa social-media screening.
we urge the Department of Homeland Security to withdraw its proposed rule, ask the Department of State to end its practice of screening the social media history of non-immigrant visa applicants
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The signed letter itself contains the exact oversight requests in the commitment. Its signature block lists Catherine Cortez Masto as a United States Senator, documenting her participation.
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CBP is adding social media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application. The data element will require ESTA applicants to provide their social media from the last 5 years.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The Federal Register notice establishes the DHS/CBP proposal targeted by Cortez Masto's letter and provides the baseline policy action she urged DHS to withdraw.
unresolvedsame_term
2025-22461.pdf
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%
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Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined a letter to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) opposing a proposed rule
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Documents a distinct earlier oversight letter opposing the proposed five-year social-media disclosure requirement, supporting the DHS advocacy component. The already-recorded May letter documents both promised requests. No additional substantive development was located for September 22–October 21, 2026.
Public state: unverifiedAs of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): never.same_term
The available record does not show Cortez Masto urging DHS to withdraw the ESTA social-media disclosure proposal or urging State to end nonimmigrant visa social-media screening. Instead, DHS/CBP and State continued or expanded the relevant screening requirements during her Senate service. Because the promised oversight action and policy outcome are not documented, and there is no serious legislative or executive attempt credited to her in the evidence, this is not fulfilled.
provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 82%