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Foreign Student Series #6: New Security System
By Nancy Steinbach
Broadcast: October 24, 2002
This is the VOA Special English EDUCATION REPORT.
We continue our series of reports about how
foreign students can attend a college or university in the United States.
This report is on the Special English Internet Web site, www.voaspecialenglish.com
Last week, the Education Report discussed changes
in the government rules for getting legal permission to enter the United
States to study. Today, we tell about ways the government plans to follow
foreign students inside the country.
One way is by using a new computer security
system called the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System or
SEVIS. All schools will enter information about their foreign students
into this computer network. The SEVIS system will go into effect on
January thirtieth, 2003.
SEVIS will link about seventy-four-thousand
American colleges, universities and technical schools to the Immigration
and Naturalization Service. It will give the I-N-S and the Justice Department
detailed information about each student. The government will be able
to tell if the student is attending classes or if the student leaves
school. The government will also use the system to let the schools know
that a student has entered the country. The new rules require schools
to tell the I-N-S within thirty days if the student is attending classes.
SEVIS is one of a number of ways that government
officials are getting more control over foreign students. Earlier this
year, officials said they may not approve requests from foreigners who
want to study some kinds of science or technology subjects. These include
subjects that could provide knowledge about how to make dangerous weapons.
And the Justice Department has begun a new system to follow foreign
visitors entering and leaving the country.
The program involves fingerprinting a small
percentage of foreign visitors. The fingerprints will be studied to
see if they are the same as those of known criminals or terrorists.
The fingerprinted visitors also must tell the government from time to
time where they are living and what they are doing in the United States.
They must also let officials know when they leave the country.
Information about SEVIS can be found on the
I-N-S Web site. The address is www.ins.gov. Then go to SEVIS Resources
or Special Registration.
This VOA Special English Education Report was
written by Nancy Steinbach.
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