The Department of Homeland Security will "effective immediately" verify that every international student visa is valid, according to an internal memo obtained by the Associated Press news agency on Friday.
Among the plaintiffs is Manuel Ortega Melendres, a visitor to Arizona who possessed a valid visa.
In December 1996 he reportedly spent six months in Russian custody after he was caught without a valid visa in Chechnya.
Plaintiff Manuel Ortega Melendres was vising Arizona on a valid visa.
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It stipulates that you have to be a STEM graduate (Science Technology Engineering or Mathematics) with a valid visa within a year of graduation or with a H1-B Visa to qualify.
In the first test, officials found that 26 out of 101 sampled students had no valid visa to be in the UK. In the second, officials concluded that 142 out of 250 had attendance problems.
"It's surprising that the administration isn't already verifying that any student coming into the country has a valid student visa, " Grassley said.
Tazhayakov was allowed to return to the U.S. from Kazakhstan in January despite not having a valid student visa, a federal law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
"The fact that a foreign national was able to re-enter the U.S. with what appeared to be a valid student visa, while Customs and Border Protection officers were unaware that his visa status had become invalid, represents a serious hole in our national security, " McCaul told CNN.
He was required to show his documents -- including a valid U.S. visa.
He was required to show his documents, including a valid U.S. visa.
"A misspelling of Mr. AbdulMutallab's name initially resulted in the State Department believing he did not have a valid U.S. visa, " the report continued.
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