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Most notably, the bill would impose a six-month moratorium on new student visas to foreign students. It would also encourage the INS to implement a long-planned electronic system to track the half-million foreign students studying in the U.S. Currently, there is no consistent system of making sure...
It is a reasonable goal for the INS to monitor foreign students more closely for visa violations and to ask colleges to confirm that they are students in good standing. Overstaying a student visa is illegal immigration, after all. However, some of Feinstein’s proposals go too far...
Feinstein’s moratorium proposal is intended to allow the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to modernize its procedures and increase its scrutiny of student visa applicants. Feinstein would require that new visas only be granted to those undergoing much more extensive background checks, including fingerprinting.
“I believe that we need a temporary six-month moratorium on the student visa program to give the INS time to remedy the many problems in the system,” Feinstein said.
To win a visa, a foreign student must be accepted by an American college, then pass a cursory interview with a consular official. About 35% get rejected. But once foreign students get to the U.S., there is little attempt to track them. Remarkably, the INS still communicates with colleges via...