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Yes. All visa applications, both immigrant and nonimmigrant, go through the Consular Consolidated Database, which carries extensive records from many different USG sources from DHS to the CIA and everybody in between. Here is a link to a recent report on the CCD:https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R43589.pdf

If by ‘thorough background check’ you are thinking of people going through filing cabinets, checking out visa applicants’ houses on Google Earth, and visiting friends, relatives and employers, no.But any application entered into the US consular computer system is automatically linked to all of the applicant’s prior history with State, with DHS, and with any other US government agency that has encountered him/her and that shares data with the consular system: just about all of them. Those links and the information they provide are available to the consular officer who conducts the interview.

I'll answer this, but there is one important clarification to be made. In the United States the President does not have the power to make law. It seems like a trivial distinction, but it's important.With that out of the way, lets look under the covers.The President's "laws" are described in the White house memorandum promoting Smart Gun Technology and White House Fact sheet on New Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence and Make Our Communities Safer.The first document asks three Federal Departments DOD, DHS, and DOJ to spend resources promoting research into "smart-gun" technology to track or disable lost or stolen weapons and to prevent accidental or unauthorized discharges. Whether this research will be fruitful is unclear. Historically consumers have not adopted smart-gun technology. If this will change is also unclear.The second document is a long list of somewhat vague Presidential actions.The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is making clear that it doesn’t matter where you conduct your business—from a store, at gun shows, or over the Internet: If you’re in the business of selling firearms, you must get a license and conduct background checks.This is designed to reduce the number of gun sales done without background checks, the so called "Gun Show Loophole". Here's how this works. I'm an individual and I have an extra gun. I can sell that to you without a background check. As long as this is a face-to-face transaction in my home state, it is legal. Am I still an individual if I sell two guns? Ten? Thirty? As it is written today, there is a gray area in the line between business and individual. The ATF has not published a clear definition of the line between an individual and a gun business. "Gun show loophole" guns are estimated at 2-3% of total criminal gun violence, so this seems unlikely to make a difference in total gun violence.ATF is finalizing a rule to require background checks for people trying to buy some of the most dangerous weapons and other items through a trust, corporation, or other legal entity.To transfer a NFA firearm, that is one that is fully automatic, a shotgun shorter than 18.5 inches, or a "destructive device" requires an ATF tax stamp. To get this tax stamp requires a background check, fingerprinting, and the signature of my local police chief. If I set up a firearms trust to buy it then I don't have to get fingerprinted or get an Officer's signature, the background check requirement is the same. NFA firearms are practically never used in crime, so this is unlikely to affect gun violence.Clarifying "Practically never": I seem to recall that a stolen NFA gun was used once in the last two decades, but can't find a reference to that.The FBI will be adding 230 additional examiners to process background checks.The number of NICS firearms background checks has doubled during President Obama's administration, topping 23 Million Background checks last year. Doubling the number of staff seems entirely reasonable. It is unclear how additional examiners to an almost-entirely-automated background check system will effect gun violence.The President’s FY2017 budget will include funding for 200 new ATF agents and investigators to help enforce our gun laws.The majority of ATF enforcement actions are against FFL licensed businesses for paperwork errors. I wish I was making this up. This is unlikely to effect gun violence. One hopes that these agents will not actively contribute guns to the criminal economy a la the failed "Fast and Furious" program from the DOJ.ATF is finalizing a rule to ensure that dealers who ship firearms notify law enforcement if their guns are lost or stolen in transit.Legitimate dealers insure their shipments, and that insurance usually requires a report to law enforcement in the event of a loss. How this will effect gun violence is unclear.The Administration is proposing a new $500 million investment to increase access to mental health care.This is a fantastic step to help address gun violence.The Social Security Administration has indicated that it will begin the rulemaking process to include information in the background check system about beneficiaries who are prohibited from possessing a firearm for mental health reasons.The Department of Health and Human Services is finalizing a rule to remove unnecessary legal barriers preventing States from reporting relevant information about people prohibited from possessing a gun for specific mental health reasons.Fantastic. Why didn't these changes happen before now? These are obvious steps to help address gun violence. That said, people make mistakes. A related process needs to be created to contest these declarations.What other actions could he take? I have one or two.First, I don't want to sell a firearm to a lunatic or criminal. To that end, I would be willing to conduct background checks as an individual when I sell a firearm if:it was fast, cheap, and voluntaryit didn't expose me to ATF review and/or molestationSecond, the president could deflect many of the "gun grabber" critics if he added to the "common sense" gun law reform to de-regulate firearm silencers. These in no way contribute to gun violence, but their lack actively contributes to hearing loss.HTH,Greene