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标 题: 移民局关于学生签证新政策英文报道--from ABCNews
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标题: **** 移民局关于学生签证新政策英文报道--from ABCNews***
New INS Restrictions for Students
INS Imposes New Restrictions on Foreign Students, Proposes Other Visa
Changes
The Associated Press
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W A S H I N G T O N, April 8 —
Immigration officials tightened visa rules for foreign students Monday
and proposed a 30-day limit to the time millions of tourists and
business people may stay in the country.
Effective immediately, a foreigner wishing to study in America must
obtain a student visa before beginning classes. Previously, a student
could request a visa and begin coursework while his or her application
was processed.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service believes requiring approval
before students enroll will ensure they have received appropriate
security checks before entering the country.
The INS also is proposing that people who want to switch from a
tourist or business visa to a student visa return to their home
country to apply. A person now can switch while in America. In return,
the INS says it would speed up decisions on such requests, issuing
them within 30 days.
Two of the Sept. 11 hijackers, Mohammed Atta of Egypt and Marwan
Al-Shehhi of the United Arab Emirates, came to the United States on
visitor visas and later applied for student visas. They began training
at a Florida flight school in July 2000, more than a year before the INS
approved their student visas.
At the time of the attacks, approximately 600,000 foreign students
were enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities. INS officials
acknowledged they could not verify the whereabouts of many and
promised changes to better track them.
The INS also is proposing to reduce from six months to 30 days the
time a business traveler or tourist may stay in America. And the
agency will make it more difficult to extend a stay.
Visitors would have to show unexpected or compelling reasons for an
extension, such as the need for medical treatment or a delay in
completing a business matter, according to an INS official who did not
want to be identified. The maximum length of a visa extension would be
reduced from one year to six months.
The changes could have a huge impact on the many thousands of people who
spend more than a month visiting family in America. Also affected would
be young people and retirees from foreign lands who come to the
United States each year and for months of sightseeing.
The INS official said those people would have to return home after a
month and reapply for a visa.
Travel industry officials said the proposal could hurt tourism, which
still is recovering from the attacks.
"Any time we make it more difficult erect barriers or tighten barriers
for people to come into our country, we give them incentive to go
someplace else, and we've seen that," said Elise Wander of the Travel
Industry Association of America.
Dexter Koehl, an association spokesman, said the travel industry
favors having INS do more thorough checks before issuing visas and at
points of entry rather than reducing the time visitors may stay.
The INS says about 10 million people received tourist visas in 2000, the
latest year with available data, and three-quarters of them stayed less
than a month. Another 2.5 million traveled to America on business and
stayed an average 13 days.
"These new rules strike the appropriate balance between INS' mission
to ensure that our nation's immigration laws are followed and stop
illegal immigration and our desire to welcome legitimate visitors to the
United States," INS Commissioner James Ziglar said.
Under another proposed rule, INS wants to require people who get final
deportation orders to surrender themselves within 30 days. Those who
don't will be denied any chance to appeal or seek asylum.
Currently, about 90 percent of non-detained individuals who receive
final deportation orders fail to surrender, according to the INS.
Those who do often appeal or seek asylum.
The proposed rules are open to public comment for 30 days.
On the Net:
Immigration and Naturalization Service: http://www.ins.gov
Travel Industry Association of America: http://www.tia.org
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