In anticipation of augmenting scrutiny of international students' digital footprints, the U.S. State Department has temporarily suspended the scheduling of new visa interviews, a moratorium that exempts applicants with pre-existing appointments, as evinced by a diplomatic cable, endorsed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, stipulating that consular sections refrain from scheduling further student visa appointments pending directives regarding the expanded vetting of social media activity; this measure, a potential harbinger of systemic disruption to enrollment projections for the forthcoming summer and autumn semesters, and portending deleterious budgetary ramifications for institutions of higher education contingent on international student enrollment, follows in the wake of the Trump administration's crackdown on international students, including the revocation of Harvard University's capacity to enroll such students and the invalidation of the legal status of thousands already present in the U.S., while the policy of scrutinizing visa applicants' social media accounts, initiated under the prior administration, has been perpetuated under the Biden administration.