"An effort to impose a federal moratorium on student visas in the wake of September's terrorist attacks has foundered after an intense lobbying campaign by university officials, who feared the pause would deal a crippling blow to advanced research programs and to the bottom lines of colleges and universities," The New York Times reported. Senator Feinstein (D-CA) had proposed a six-month moratorium on the issuance of such visas as part of the general effort to tighten the nation's security. "But the clash illustrated a more prosaic, pressing side to their concern: the growing financial and intellectual dependence of universities on students from overseas, particularly for graduate programs in the sciences, engineering and math."
You can read the complete November 18, 2001 New York Times article at http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/18/politics/18VISA.html
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Posted November 20, 2001, on the NASFAA Web Site www.nasfaa.org
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