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Russell said Atty. Gen. Griffin Bell, prompted by the Iranian riot, directed the INS to check the number of foreign students in American colleges. "Our information was about seven months behind, so we asked colleges to give us the number of foreign students enrolled with them," Russell said.
Sonya B. Roll, an INS officer in Boston, said Friday students renewing their visas would have to be interviewed by the INS first.
The interviews, ordered by a Justice Department directive in early February, help the INS verify that the student has not been "illegally employed" or behaved "in a manner inconsistent with his/her presence in the United States as a student," an INS spokesman said Friday.
Eugene R. Chamberlain, adviser to foreign students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Thursday that the INS had asked student advisors at colleges to conduct the interviews themselves.
"We strongly objected to conducting the interviews, and a considerable national write-in campaign resulted. Our point was made and the INS said they would conduct the interviews," Chamberlain said.