April 4, 2003
Problems Continue to Plague Database That Tracks Foreign Students
Nearly three months after it was supposed to be ready, the database that the federal government uses to track international students in the United States is still far from being fully operational, says a report from the U.S. Department of Justice.
The USA Patriot Act of 2001 required the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service to create a database to track all foreign students. The INS worked feverishly to build the database last year and rolled out the Student and Exchange Visitor
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