Are the Embassies coping with demand for student entry clearance?

Anyone know how the British posts in the US are coping with student entry clearance applications?  From 1 September visitors can't study, and associate/visiting students and other short-term students will all need entry clearance if they want to work and/or have the choice of staying on for longer.  The days of rocking up at the airport are over  -- unless you don't mind having a work prohibition, and can show you will be definitely leaving within 6 months.

There are thousands of visiting students from the US in the UK, so I hope the Embassies have taken on extra staff to process the entry clearance applications.

Anyone know how the British posts in the US are coping with student entry clearance applications?  From 1 September visitors can't study, and associate/visiting students and other short-term students will all need entry clearance if they want to work and/or have the choice of staying on for longer.  The days of rocking up at the airport are over  -- unless you don't mind having a work prohibition, and can show you will be definitely leaving within 6 months.

There are thousands of visiting students from the US in the UK, so I hope the Embassies have taken on extra staff to process the entry clearance applications.

Interesting point!  I'd imagine though that many if not most short term students will elect to take the student visitor status- most students who only go for a semester don't work or want to work, and need to come back home in time to start their next term at their home uni, so there's not much point in applying for entry clearance.  I studied in the UK for 4.5 months during undergrad 2 years ago, and if this rule had been in place then I wouldn't have bothered with the entry clearance, quite frankly.

And of course this doesn't really affect those who study for a full year since they've needed to get entry clearance since about 2003...