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The bill substantially tightens vetting, reporting, and enforcement to bolster national security and program integrity, but it does so by imposing significant new privacy exposure, administrative and compliance costs, and access restrictions that will disrupt many international students and smaller educational institutions.
Colleges, universities, DHS, and visa adjudicators — strengthen vetting and fraud prevention across the student-visa system (background checks, promoter registration, immediate suspension/ban authority, transparency about foreign funding, and restrictions on high-risk enrollments), reducing visa fraud and risks to sensitive research and infrastructure.
Schools, sponsors, and nonimmigrant students — get clearer, more consistent rules and reporting triggers (who must be reported, enrollment/non-enrollment timing, authorized-stay end dates, and limits on what training counts), reducing ambiguity for compliance and adjudication.
International students and institutions — move toward a consolidated, person-centric, paperless SEVIS system and standardized data points (e.g., tuition-payment dates), which should reduce duplicate records, streamline tracking, and simplify some administrative processes.
Millions of prospective and current international students (including citizens of designated countries and those on non-F/J/M visas) — may be barred from or lose access to U.S. training and education (broad country-based exclusions and tightened eligibility), disrupting careers, study plans, and family arrangements.
Small, new, or non‑accredited institutions and flight schools — face potentially severe revenue loss, higher compliance costs, or loss of ability to enroll international students due to accreditation, FAA, disclosure, and certification requirements, harming local economies and program availability.
International students and institutions — encounter increased government data collection, centralized person-centric records, and expanded DHS access/exemptions from disclosure, elevating privacy risks and deterring some students from studying in the U.S.
Based on analysis of 23 sections of legislative text.
Tightens screening, reporting, accreditation, and visa limits for foreign students; restricts certain nationals and fields of study; modernizes SEVIS; and increases penalties for fraud.
Introduced July 30, 2025 by Thomas Hawley Tuberville · Last progress July 30, 2025
Tightens rules for foreign students, schools, and exchange programs by raising screening, reporting, and accreditation requirements; restricting which visa classes can be used for language and flight training; and banning or limiting students from certain countries from particular fields of study. It requires SEVIS modernization, increases criminal and civil penalties for fraud or reporting failures, imposes background and citizenship checks for school officials and recruiters, and authorizes DHS/State to suspend or revoke program approvals for noncompliance.