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...bill has 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...
Moussaoui made his first visit to Afghan training camps run by bin Laden, visits that continued through 1996. And Moussaoui began recruiting other young Muslims to fight for Islam in Chechnya and Kosovo. Moussaoui finally set down in the U.S. in February using an entry visa obtained in Pakistan...
Last year, like more than 500,000 other foreigners, a man named Hani Hanjour used a student visa to enter the U.S. He had been accepted to an intensive English course run by ELS Language Centers at Holy Names College in Oakland, Calif., where the basic admission requirement is ability to pay the $1,325 fee. When classes began last November, Hanjour didn't show. Immigration officials, who rarely track the whereabouts of student visa holders, had no idea where he was. The FBI now believes he spent much of his time in San Diego and Maryland, trying to hone...
...California alone last year, 66,000 foreign students paid colleges nearly $700 million in tuition and fees. But after the terrorist attacks of two weeks ago, the open door may start closing. Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, suggested a six-month moratorium on the issuance of student visas. Even the American Council on Education, a lobbying group that represents most of the nation's colleges, recognizes that student visa policy will have to change. Says senior vice president Terry Hartle: "We all realize the government will and should be looking at this...
...visa, a foreign student must be accepted by an American college, then pass a cursory interview with a consular official. About 35% get rejected. But once foreign students get to the U.S., there is little attempt to track them. Remarkably, the INS still communicates with colleges via paper and pencil. That should have changed after the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, in which the driver of the explosives-filled van was in the U.S. on an expired student visa. In 1995 Congress ordered the creation of a database of all foreign students; colleges would have to tell...