Jalandhar, May 29 -- Hundreds of aspirants in Punjab are jittery after the United States administration put an embargo on student visa interviews. The students aspiring to study in US colleges and universities have now started looking for other countries as alternative options.

US is among the most preferred destinations for Indian students looking to study abroad, second only to Canada.

On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered US embassies worldwide to stop scheduling interviews for student visas as the Donald Trump administration was weighing stricter vetting of applicants' social-media profiles.

Jalandhar resident Priyansh Sharma says he had cracked the English proficiency test required for getting admission in US unive...