State Department Requires Social Media Review for Student Visas

The State Department is restarting interviews for student visas and installing stricter social media guidelines, including a requirement that all applicants have their accounts set to public to be scrutinized for hostility toward the United States, according to a State Department cable sent to embassies and consulates and obtained by The Washington Post. The move comes after foreign students’ visa appointments were suspended last month in what U.S. officials described as part of a campaign against universities that allegedly fostered antisemitism and other national security concerns.