Trump team pauses new student visa interviews as it weighs expanding social
media vetting
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-team-orders-stop-student-154635250.html
Nahal Toosi
Tue, May 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM CDT
The Trump administration is weighing requiring all foreign students applying
to study in the United States to undergo social media vetting — a
significant expansion of previous such efforts, according to a cable obtained
by POLITICO.
In preparation for such required vetting, the administration is ordering U.S.
embassies and consular sections to pause scheduling new interviews for such
student visa applicants, according to the cable, dated Tuesday and signed by
Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
If the administration carries out the plan, it could severely slow down
student visa processing. It also could hurt many universities who rely
heavily on foreign students to boost their financial coffers.
“Effective immediately, in preparation for an expansion of required social
media screening and vetting, consular sections should not add any additional
student or exchange visitor (F, M, and J) visa appointment capacity until
further guidance is issued septel, which we anticipate in the coming days,”
the cable states. (“Septel” is State Department shorthand for “separate
telegram.”)
The administration had earlier imposed some social media screening
requirements, but those were largely aimed at returning students who may have
participated in protests against Israel’s actions in Gaza.
The cable doesn’t directly spell out what the future social media vetting
would screen for, but it alludes to executive orders that are aimed at
keeping out terrorists and battling antisemitism.
Many State Department officials have complained privately for months that
past guidance — for, say, vetting students who may have participated in
campus protests — has been vague. It’s unclear, for example, whether
posting photos of a Palestinian flag on an X account could force a student to
undergo additional scrutiny.
The administration has used a variety of rules to target universities,
especially elite ones such as Harvard, that it sees as too liberal and
accuses of allowing antisemitism to flourish on their campuses. At the same
time, it is carrying out immigration crackdowns that have swept up a number
of students.
Spokespeople for the State Department did not immediately respond to a
request for comment. An official with NAFSA: Association of International
Educators declined to offer immediate comment.

Pog

Wut?

好想哭

这时间也太尴尬 不是正好接受offer要申请秋季入学

惨 人生规划全毁

稍早去银行才听到有人在顺丰取件时被通知AIT临时撤回该生签证，所以要把护照寄回AIT注销签证，造成他白跑一趟

好惨

那也真倒霉，留下visa revocation的纪录

好惨喔 以后申请签证会被影响吧

有这么严重吗？他的案例感觉不是申请者的问题，因为面谈已通过，而是承办单位临时收到行政命令而不得不为之

通常会盖 canceled without prejudice 证明不是因为申请人的问题导致签证被取消

AIT 可以约了。