Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports

The move by government of the United States of America has temporarily suspended new applications from international students seeking opportunities in America universities is conceived to buy more time for running extensive checks on existing applicants as anti-Semitic campaigns that rocked college campuses spread impact on immigration policies.

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 U.S. Secretary of State Mark Rubio declared that the directive on embassies to pause the processing of new student visa interviews until further notice aims to give officials time to implement enhanced background checks, particularly focusing on applicants’ online and social media activity.

The Trump administration has ordered U.S. embassies around the world to temporarily stop scheduling new visa interviews for international students, citing plans to expand the screening of applicants’ social media profiles, according to foreign media reports.

Officials say the move is part of a broader effort to tighten vetting procedures for student visas.

U.S. State Department source confirmed while no new appointments will be accepted for now, interviews that were already scheduled will proceed as planned.

The temporary suspension comes amid growing concerns within the Trump administration over security and immigration enforcement.  It follows growing suspicion that the college campuses in the United States were infiltrated by Arab funded campaigners working to mount domestic pressure on the US government to denounce ongoing war between Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) and Hamas terrorist group in Gaza.

The government had quietly taken notice of the pattern of anti-Semitic campaigns that spread across the country’s higher institutions of learning; particularly the Harvard University which battles to restores its right to admit international students.

Harvard is recorded to have permitted unrestrained campus protests and also allowed some of its academic staffers to promote hate against Jews, a practice most analysts interpret as too low for the status of the institution the certification of which confers prestige to international scholars.

The fallout and ripple effects of the massive pro-Palestine campus protests in the US, many argue, will disrupt educational opportunities and damage America’s reputation as a hub for international students.

The administration had earlier revoked Harvard University’s right to admit foreign students under certain visa programs, compounding a widespread immigration campaign to mop up illegal aliens that have infiltrated the country.