Do they check social media, and what is DS-5535?

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Social accounts go into the forms and may be checked; DS-5535 is the extended questionnaire issued after some interviews, asking for all accounts and years of history. Community experience: officers look not for professional posts but for identity consistency and absence of risk flags. Answers across forms must match.

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The answers below are translated from the original Russian - the language of the community chats.

I filled out DS-5535: I indicated all social networks exactly as in DS-260. I did not mention old abandoned accounts not included in DS-260 - the main thing is that the forms do not contradict each other.
If there are no publications in unlisted social networks for recent years, you do not need to mention them; if there are publications, the theory is: it's better to include additional accounts than to provide a reason for discrepancies.
It is not necessary to maintain a professional account: if someone looks at the profile, it will be to verify that you are who you claim to be, and there is no risk in an ordinary personal profile.

The answers are anonymized community experience from the public chats, not legal advice. Officers may decide similar cases differently.

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