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Previous efforts to track the activities of foreign students have moved slowly and have had little success. The current effort, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, is expected to receive a $43 million boost from the Bush Administration, but Feinstein believes that a moratorium is also necessary to prevent terrorists from entering the U.S. before the system is ready...
...been strongly opposed by education lobbyists, and Harvard has criticized certain parts of the legislation as highly flawed. It is easy to see why: of the estimated 31 million foreign citizens who entered the U.S. on a visa in 1999, fewer than 2 percent were students. The proposed moratorium would therefore be an ineffective way of preventing terrorists from reaching American soil, but it would create significant barriers for students abroad who legitimately wish to study in the U.S. It would also cost America’s colleges a significant amount of money in tuition fees...
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...
...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...
...wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, one of the U.S. Senate’s leading voices has decided to seek a six-month moratorium on the issuance of new student visas to international students seeking to study...