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...second-generation European Muslims--most of them European Union citizens--who are a security risk. "As E.U. citizens, they're eligible for U.S. visa waivers, which means they can represent a direct threat to the U.S.," says Robert Leiken of the Nixon Center, a Washington-based foreign policy think tank founded by the former President. "Local groups that are already in place, that grew up in Western Europe and can conduct surveillance for multiple bombings without arousing a great deal of suspicion--this can be an enormous problem." Right now the FBI has no evidence of any hard-core...
...wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, legislators on both sides of the political spectrum advocated tightening the visa-approval process for foreign students hoping to study in the U.S.—particularly those from countries like China, which has high immigration rates. This sparked an outcry from academics, who said such a policy would inhibit their ability to conduct research...
...policy comes after University President Lawrence H. Summers wrote a letter to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell and then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge ’67 in April, 2004, in which he argued that visa restrictions and other barriers to international students could precipitate a braindrain of foreign graduate students. This in turn, he said, could hurt America’s position at the forefront of technological and academic innovation...
...certainly welcome the new system. Under the old one, if I decide to go back home for the Christmas recess, then I need to reapply for the visa. Given that the Christmas recess is so short, this is really annoying,” Yuanchen Zhu ’08, who lives in Shangai, wrote in an e-mail...
...added that although visa holders are better off under the new policy, it is still difficult for some to acquire a U.S. entry visa...