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On the recordApril 5, 2006
here is what I understand the law to be and what your amendment says. The law, as I understand it, is if you are in the United States on a student visa from a foreign country, you are required to be a full-time student and to stay. If you are failing a course, you drop out of the course, you are no longer a full-time student and, therefore, you are ineligible to stay on a student visa. At that point, you are subject to a final order of removal which means you can be deported from this country, having a presence in this country that is not recognized by your student visa because you dropped the course. Now let me read what your amendment says. It says: An alien is ineligible for conditional nonimmigrant work authorization and status under this section if the alien is subject to a final order of removal.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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