On April 9, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will immediately begin considering a noncitizen's anti-Semitic activity on social media and the physical harassment of Jewish individuals as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests. This will immediately affect foreign nationals applying for lawful permanent resident status, foreign students and noncitizens affiliated with educational institutions linked to anti-Semitic activity.

Note that U.S. Consulates and U.S. Customs & Border Protection also consider a noncitizen's social media activity when determining whether to issue a visa or admit an individual to the U.S.

DHS has indicated that it will enforce all relevant immigration laws to the maximum degree to protect the homeland from extremists and terrorist aliens, including those who support anti-Semitic terrorism, violent anti-Semitic ideologies and anti-Semitic terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, or Ansar Allah aka: “the Houthis.”

Under this guidance, USCIS will consider social media content that indicates an alien endorsing, espousing, promoting, or supporting anti-Semitic terrorism, anti-Semitic terrorist organizations, or other anti-Semitic activity as a negative factor in any USCIS discretionary analysis when adjudicating immigration benefit requests.