Trump Administration Studies Student Visa Assignments “Extended Social Media Vetting”

The State Department ordered US embassies to temporarily suspend visa appointments, because the Trump Office works for an area of ​​restrictions to international students to expand social media demonstrations for applicants.

In a cable dated Tuesday and CBS news, Secretary of State Marko Rubio, extended vetting preparations and calendars instructed the diplomatic post to not appoint a meeting for students and foreign exchange visas for unpredictated meetings. If the students have already determined visa interviews, they can still go forward.

The break will continue in the next few days until another leadership.

The State Department is preparing for the expansion of the required social media examination and expanding the vetting and all student visa applicants may be subject to social media inspections for cable. According to the cable, the “numerous effects” of this additional examination and the “significant results” for the operations of the consulates are a break for new appointments, cable.

The Chief State Department official confirmed the accuracy of the cable’s CBS news.

The memorial first informed Policy.

When asked about student visas, the State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce told reporters on Tuesday: “At the same time, we will take the vetting process into the country very seriously and continue to do so.”

The State Department official said on Wednesday that when the department does not comment on domestic communication, planning an unmixed visa interview meetings are “dynamic”. The capacity of an official embassy or consulate, the consular officers are fully in accordance with US laws, including the applicants are required to ensure that the applicants did not create security or security risks.

“Every visa decision is a decision, the decision of the State Department,” the State Department said that every promising traveler in the United States has violated intercing security. “The United States is the basis for prohibiting access to the United States by the fact that they can cause a threat to national security or public safety.”

Are international students who want to study in the United States Usually required To appoint interviews as part of the American embassy or consulate, usually in their homes, visa application process. Wait change a lot: In most embassies, appointments for student visa interviews may be held less than two months, although some diplomatic inscriptions are longer.

The Homeland Security Department last month said It would make a screen For some visa applicants, including people looking for student visas, for the things that are called “physical aggression of anti-Semitic activities and Jewish individuals in social media.”

The screens are part of a wider password in international students – some of them give impetus from the judiciary.

Last week, DHS He told Harvard University The monthly battle between management and IVY League school cannot mark the growing international students. DHS Secretary Noem said the leadership was illegal of Harvard’s action, “Harvard’s action, which is responsible for the coordination of violence, anti-Semitism and its campus in its campus. Judge Quickly blocked the policy.

The government tried to deport a pilgrimage based on the Palestinian activist – some of the green cards, including Columbia University, Mohmud Khalawi and Mahmoud Khalil, a law that allows someone to break “negative foreign policy results”. The lawyers violate these visa returns to the first adjustment rights of students, although the government said it is the right to do so for it. Some students, including Mahdawi, were released in exchange for collateral.

And Lawyers say Trump leadership tried to finish Legal status It turned out that many of thousands of other international students targeted Small violations. There is a federal judge Blocked these efforts.

Camilla Schick and

Olivia Victoria Gaza

contributed to this report.