Some of these citizens will testify tomorrow before the House Subcommittee on Immigration, chaired by Texas Congressman Lamar Smith. Federation for American Immigration Reform 5. NEW FEE Students coming to the United States from other countries may face a new fee starting later this year, according to representatives of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Under the law, the INS could have started collecting the fee in 1997, but at that time the INS set the fee at zero. To begin recovering that money, the INS is working on a regulation that will put the fee into effect later this year or early next.
Many issues remain to be resolved, including several surrounding the fee.
It remains undecided, or at least unannounced, whether the fee will be assessed annually or only on initial arrival, or whether the fee will be paid through schools, directly to the INS, or by some other route. The INS originally said that all people in the U.S. in F or J status will be subject to the fee when it is put into effect, but at Denver the plan was said to affect only people arriving after the fee regulation is officially published. The OISS will provide more information about this fee when reliable information becomes available. When they go to live in another country, people usually find that, sooner or later, some of the assumptions and values they brought with them from their home cultures are challenged. UI history professor Paul Greenough gave an example of such an experience when he spoke to graduating foreign students at an International Center reception in May.