Most students will have to show greater proficiency in English and more robust proof that they can support themselves.

ECONOMIST: Student visas

Academics also are hopeful that there soon will be greater national consistency in how English learners are identified and how proficiency is defined through the Common Core standards and assessments, a set of uniform benchmarks adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia.

NPR: Instruction Of Students Learning English Bleak

In California, 59 percent of secondary school English learners were found to have been in U.S. schools for more than six years without reaching English proficiency, according to a study by Californians Together, a statewide coalition of parents, teachers and education advocates.

NPR: Instruction Of Students Learning English Bleak