Donald Trump Freezes All New Student Visa Interviews: Report

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Source: Newsweek

Published May 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM EDT | Updated May 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM EDT


The Trump administration has ordered a freeze on all new student visa interviews at U.S. embassies and consulates, as it weighs a plan to require foreign applicants to undergo social media vetting, according to a State Department cable obtained by Politico. The cable, dated Tuesday and signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, outlines the forthcoming shift in vetting procedures. The news outlet also reported Tuesday that the Trump administration is considering a policy that would require all foreign students applying to study in the United States to undergo social media screening. Newsweek has reached out to the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) via email for comment.

Why It Matters

Pausing the visa category, which saw over 400,000 issuances in fiscal year 2024, would mark a shift in the Trump administration's efforts to limit immigration, dramatically slow down the process for international students, and potentially cut off more funding to institutions that welcome them.

What To Know

"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 seen by Politico stated. Septel is shorthand for "separate telegram." The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) began planning increased screening of immigrants' social media accounts in early March, stating that it would increase national security.

People applying for permanent residency (green cards) or citizenship from within the U.S. were already required to provide social media account information, but expanding the program to those planning to immigrate to the U.S. was aimed at around 2.5 million yearly immigrants. The State Department's involvement in the process occurs at the embassy or consular level, where its staff determines eligibility for visas during interviews.

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1. Something is seriously wrong with the....

current administration.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. He and his regime are absolutely destroying America and its future for generations to come.

[Passages]

3. Greatest Jackass of All Time.....Trump.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Trump wants only American white males in US colleges.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. And the teaching of only MAGA approved crap.

[turbinetree]

6. David Horowitz mentoring Stephen Miller.........this is where this coming from...........

Demonizers

David Horowitz bequeathed his rage-filled and slanderous extremism to Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and MAGA world.

by Harold Meyerson May 5, 2025

David Horowitz died last Tuesday, but his spirit, I grieve to report, lives on. Indeed, it has state power.

Any number of public figures have careers that follow a left-to-right, or right-to-left, trajectory. Even among his fellow left-to-rightsters, though, Horowitz stood out. His journey from extreme left to extreme right was so, well, extreme that the through line of his affinity for extremism ultimately overshadows the claims of mere ideology. He carried with him from his youth the belief that any conflict he participated in (never mind that he provoked almost all of them) was, in the words of “The International,” “the final conflict.” No conflict was worth his time if it didn’t enable him to vilify, slander, and demonize his opponents, who, no matter where they stood on the ideological spectrum, necessarily had to pose a threat to civilization itself, according to the Horowitz gospel. So grave a threat required an almost Goebbels-esque level of vilification and falsification (else, you might not think it all that grave). But Horowitz was not only up to that task; he reveled in it.

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-05-05-demonizers-david-horowitz-stephen-miller/

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8. Miller seriously needs to go

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. This is like putting sanctions on yourself

but I think it shows that Trump does not see the good of the country as being anything to do with him.

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9. I Would Say

he doesn't understand what the good of the country is in any way. His idea of "the good of the country" is a picture of a waving American flag. No more.

[DBoon]

10. this is a tariff on foreign ideas

[Martin68]

12. Xenophobia on steroids, with a huge dose of racism thrown in.

[tanyev]

13. "Nobody gets in unless they've posted lots of pictures of themself wearing a MAGA hat!"

[wolfie001]

14. Fraud liar's looking for payoffs

Basically, blackmail. Extortion.

[Nigrum Cattus]

15. He has just raised the salaries of all professionals

Because the repugs have just reduced the number of
future graduates to fill increasing openings. Possibly
requiring increased immigration.

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16. He doesn't want any of those fancy pants smart people coming to this country

[iemanja]

17. How a long before he locks the borders

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and keeps Americans from leaving?