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...colleges and universities during the 2003-2004 academic year. This decrease—the first in more than 30 years—comes at the heels of a drop-off in rate of growth in 2002-2003, which officials in the higher education community attribute to post-Sept. 11 visa restrictions and regulations...
...visa process remains complicated and filled with delays,” Summers wrote, “we risk losing some of our most talented scientists and compromising our country’s position at the forefront of technological innovation...
...addition to visa delays, several international administrators have cited complications surrounding SEVIS, a national database of foreign-student records established after Sept. 11, as a deterrent. In its first months of operation, the database was notorious for losing information, causing delays and preventing some scholars from entering the country successfully...
...time, our Mumbai office should also have useful contacts and information on safe places to stay, doctors, visa and passport information,” Fonseca wrote in an e-mail...
Verdery cited adjustments to SEVIS, a notoriously bug-ridden database of international students launched in 2003, as an example of the department’s improvement. Last year 300 visa-holders were detained at airports as a result of problems with the processing of their records, he said. Only 80 have reported problems so far this year...