Pending the promulgation of revised protocols pertaining to amplified surveillance of prospective foreign students' digital footprints across social media platforms, the US State Department has enacted a moratorium on scheduling new visa interviews, a directive articulated in a cable bearing the imprimatur of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, explicitly instructing consular divisions to abstain from calendaring further student visa appointments until exhaustive guidelines on the augmented social media vetting regime are disseminated, a measure ostensibly precipitated by the preceding administration's stringent clampdown on international student matriculation, encompassing actions such as the rescission of Harvard University's international student enrolment prerogative and the abrogation of legal standing for myriad international students domiciled within the US, the current policy, inherited from its predecessor, mandating the meticulous scrutiny of visa applicants' social media presences, whilst a protracted hiatus in student visa scheduling portends potential disruption to prospective students' matriculation plans for the summer and autumn semesters, potentially precipitating deleterious financial ramifications for tertiary institutions predicated upon international student enrolment.