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Though legislation enacted in the aftermath of Sept. 11 has left some international students without visas and unable to enter the country, Fitzsimmons said he does not see this emerging as a large threat to yields and says that potential visa problems do not affect international recruiting or admissions...
...SEVIS is not the only national security legislation to garner criticism from congressional leaders in the past week. On Mar. 24, thirty-two members of the House of Representatives submitted a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell urging him to reconsider the more stringent student visa policies established in response to post-Sept. 11 national security concerns...
...student in Idaho last week may have been an important first step in busting up the burgeoning links between Islamic extremism and the World Wide Web. Sami Omar al-Hussayen, a Ph.D. candidate in computer security at the University of Idaho, was charged with violating conditions of his student visa by registering and maintaining a dozen militant websites promoting violence against U.S. interests. U.S. officials want to know more about al-Hussayen's work for the sponsor of most of these sites, the radical Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA), a Michigan-based group known as one of the most...
Finally, especially after Sept. 11, tightened security and immigration policies have made some international students wary of leaving the country. According to Abida, international students receive a year-long “practical training” visa to gain job experience after graduation, but cannot return if they leave the U.S. “If I leave the country, I can only go back to Tunisia,” she says. And even for students still in college, re-entry to the U.S. is no sure thing. At the beginning of this academic year, a few Harvard students were temporarily...
...stating that there was, in fact, no Craig. And he's proudest of the "random acts of kindness" he often sees on the site, such as the woman who offered her vacuum cleaner to a public school or the British immigrant who gave someone advice on securing a work visa...