"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Blanche wrote:

The visa expired? The school is responsible for a) expelling the
student and b) immediately informing INS.

A visa allows one to enter the country. You do not have to leave when it
expires.
Once you're in the country, the INS tells you how long you can stay.

Further, a student visa doesn't expire as long as the student is enrolled
and making
progress towards their course of study. They've got 60 days after they
finish to
get out (or make other arrangements). So it's not that you can be
studying and have
a student visa expire, it's because you stop studying that the terms of
your entry under
that visa becomes invalid. It's actually the schools completion of the
"certificate of
eligibility" that lets you be in the country on the visa.

Yes, and I'm sure we can depend on all the university administrators in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, to duly notify John Ashcroft's Department of
Justice of every such event.

Best,
-cwk.