Citing the exigency of enhanced due diligence regarding applicants' digital footprints, the State Department has imposed a moratorium on scheduling new visa interviews for prospective foreign students, a pre-emptive measure predicated on imminent guidelines concerning expanded social media vetting protocols, as delineated in a cable bearing Secretary Rubio's signature; this suspension, however, does not extend to those whose interviews were pre-scheduled, but a protracted cessation in student visa scheduling risks disrupting matriculation timelines for upcoming academic terms and precipitating deleterious budgetary ramifications for tertiary institutions reliant on international student enrollment, amidst the Biden administration's continuation of the preceding executive branch's policy of social media scrutiny, itself subsequent to measures such as the erstwhile revocation of Harvard University's international student enrollment privileges and the annulment of legal residency for thousands of international students already within the United States.