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...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 in monitoring the lives of foreign students. If students have entered the U.S. to study for a specific purpose, the INS should be able to enforce its requirements; however, there is no reason to require colleges to send the government quarterly grade reports for all those on student visas...
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...
...Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) announced late last week that she would introduce legislation to reform the U.S. student visa program—which currently is easily abused, she said. She noted that a number of the suspected terrorists in the Sept. 11 attacks were in the U.S. on student visas—even though they never attended the schools in which they were supposedly enrolled...
...Today, there is little scrutiny given to those who claim to be foreign students seeking to study in the United States,” Feinstein said in a press statement. “In fact, the foreign student visa program is one of the most unregulated and exploited visa categories...