February 7, 2003

INS Delays Deadline for Database to Track Foreign Students

By MICHAEL ARNONE

The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service decided last week to give colleges a little more time before they must start using the agency's database to monitor and track foreign students. Colleges can still file the INS's paper visa forms until February 15, the new date on which they have to start using the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or Sevis.

The grace period acknowledges that colleges are having real difficulties using the online system, said an INS official

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