May 31, 2002
INS Database Won't Make Deadline
The U.S. Justice Department released a report last week that calls the government's system for tracking foreign students inadequate and says a new, computerized database designed to improve monitoring won't be ready by the January 30 deadline.
The new database, the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), will be an advance for the beleaguered Immigration and Naturalization Service but "will not solve the problems of the ... tracking of foreign students," the report
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