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February 28; 1980 The J-TAC PageS
Canada's rescue halts Iranian immigration
(CPS) -- The Canadian
government's help in smuggling
six Americans out of Iran last
week may effectively stop a
building flow of Iranian students
out of the U.S. and into
Canadian universities.
"It's really too earjy to tell"
if the dramatic escape from
Teheran will stop the migration
to Canada, says Canadian Bureau
for International Education
(CBl.E) Director John Helliwell.
But some Canadian and
American international study
observers are guessing off the
record that Iranians will find it
nearly impossible to get into
Canada, at least until the current
crisis is resolved.
The hardening Canadian
attitude is a vivid contrast to the
relative tolerance that, Helliwell
ways, started to attract Iranian
students to Canada after
anti-Iranian hostility and U.S.
immigration pressures made life
on American campuses
uncomfortable for them.
"Canada is less sensitive to
what happened in Iran than the
U.S. is," Helliwell observes.
"The Canadian students are
slightly more phlegmatic than
their counterparts in the states."
So when anti-Iranian
sentiment erupted on American
campuses after the kidnapping
of 50 Americans in Teheran last
November, Iranians in the U.S.
began flooding Canadian schools
with applications to transfer.
"The Iranians apply
everywhere, using a shotgut
appraoch," Stan Jones,
admissions director of Carleton
University in Ottawa, told
Canadian University Press. They
hope "they will be accepted to
at least one of the schools,
without knowing much about
the schools themselves."
At Carleton, 100 of the 177
students in an English as a
second language program this
term are Iranian. The universities
of British Columbia and Ablerta
as well as McGill and Bishop
universities also reported an
increase in Iranian inquiries
before last week's escape from
Teheran.
Those inquiries had been
about evenly split between
Iranians in the U.S. and those in
Iran, according to registration
officials across Canada. But the
subsequent closure, of the
Canadian embassy in Teheran,
which initially processed
applications, has left Iranians
still at home with no place to
inquire.
And there is evidence that
Iranians who wish to transfer
from U.S. schools to Canadian
schools are relying more on
outside agencies to help them.
'There are dozens of
recruiting agencies around the
country," reports Bill Bray of
the National Association for
Foreign Student Affairs in
Washington, C.C. "Mostly, they
just help get through the
paperwork."
Many agencies. Bray says, are
run by former students who
learn how to muddle through
the paperwork and registration
process themselves. Much of
their advice is available for the
price of a stamp from numerous
governmental sources, he adds.
"The recruiters make money
as the middlemen" between
colleges and students. Bray
explains.
The brokers "won't do the
kid any good at all," Helliwell
concurs. "There is really ho
reason to go through these
companies. The institutions will
not respond any better to the
broker than (to) the student."
Barg Educational Services,"
located in west Los Angeles, is
one that recruits students
through ads in college
newspapers around the country.
Barg promises that $300 "can
secure acceptance from
Canadian and British colleges
and universities." While the Barg
contract guarantees acceptances,
the University, of Southern
California Trojan recently found
that it does not guarantee
acceptance in a particular school
or course of study.
Iranians appeal to U.S. Supreme Court
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(CPS)--lranian students in the
last week announced they would
ask the Supreme Court to rule
on the legality of the Carter
Administration's
three-month-long effort to check
their visa status. Meanwhile, the
string of contradictory lower
court rulings continued when
the U.S. Court of Appeals in San
Francisco said that some 5000
Iranians here could not be
deported as a group.
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In the San Francisco case,
Iranians were contesting the
right of the Immigration arid
Naturalization Service (INS) to
revoke visa extensions it had
granted in August, 1979. Those
extensions gave some 500
Iranians who didn't want to
return to Iran permission to stay
in the U.S. until June 1. 1980.
The INS, however, had
revoked the extension after
President Carter's November 1.1
order to check the visa status of
all college-age Iranians in this
country.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals has ruled that, while the
INS had the powere to revoke
visa extensions,'jit can only do so
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on a case-by-case basis. Judge
Robert Schnacke said the INS
had acted improperly in treating
the 5000 Iranians as a class.
The ruling contracdicts a
Decemver 27 decision by
another federal court, the
District of Columbia U.S. Court
of Appeals. A month earlier,
several groups of Iranian
students had claimed the
administration's roundup was
discriminatory because it singled
out Iranians for the special
treatment of having their visas
checked.
On December 11, one judge
agreed the administration's
roundup was inconstitutional,
and ordered it stopped. In the
December 27 appeal, however,
the Court of Appeals ruled that
stopping the visa checks
amounted to a judicial incursion
of the President's powers to
.conduct foreign policy.
The government has
continued making its visa checks
in the interim. But last week the
Iranians, represented by the
Confederation of Iranian
Students, asked the U.S.
Supreme Court to determine if
they must report for the visa
checks. Two professors have
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