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>Subject: INS Extends Its Foreign Student Deadline
>Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:49:37 -0600
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>INS Extends Its Foreign Student Deadline
>By ADRIAN SAINZ
>Associated Press Writer
>
>January 30, 2003, 7:42 PM EST
>
>MIAMI -- The Immigration and Naturalization Service gave the nation's
>colleges and universities an extra 15 days to begin feeding information
>about their foreign students into a new Internet database.
>
>The immigration agency said the new Feb. 15 deadline would let schools
>make sure their computers could link to INS equipment.
>
>The INS had set a Thursday deadline for about 3,000 schools to be ready
>to start supplying data to the Student and Exchange Visitor Information
>System, which is meant to replace the paper-based system the INS has
>used for years to track foreign students.
>
>
>But some colleges complained that the system was too cumbersome or was
>not responding properly.
>
>"There were certainly indications there were problems that were cropping
>up. This is a way to afford those schools two more weeks to work through
>those issues," INS spokesman Chris Bentley said.
>
>The INS has had a mandate to create a computerized system since 1996.
>But the long-delayed project was accelerated after the Sept. 11
>terrorist attacks. One of the hijackers had entered the United States on
>a student visa.
>
>Schools must provide information on the academic, personal and financial
>status of foreign-born students and their dependents. Colleges must also
>provide data on any disciplinary action, off-campus employment and
>whether the student has dropped below a full course of study.
>
>The grace period applies only to newly enrolled international students.
>An Aug. 1 deadline for foreign students already enrolled still applies.
>
>About 583,000 foreign students were enrolled in the United States in
>2001-02, according to the Institute of International Education.
>
>Many school administrators were relieved to learned of the extension
>Wednesday, though some questioned whether two weeks would be enough.
>
>Software adjustments at Miami's Florida International University mean it
>cannot begin submitting information for its 3,300 international students
>until next week, and Georgetown University in Washington had not been
>able to access the system until Thursday.
>
>"It's been as slow as molasses in a refrigerator," Georgetown assistant
>dean Kathy Bellows said. "Today, though, I was able to get in and do the
>things I needed to do fairly quickly."
>
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