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The US State Department will move toward more aggressive digital vetting for visa applicants, and Indian students and journalists will face the most visible friction in the short term.

This is a policy story with immediate consequences for journalists, students and other visa applicants, especially from India. It also signals that digital footprints are becoming part of the US immigration filter.

Canadian prosecutors will move the case forward quickly after the Toronto airport arrest, and the next public focus will be on how Abdul Ghafoori remained at large for more than seven months.

The arrest closes a major cross-border fugitive case involving an Indian national and could surface new details about how he evaded capture for months.