WASHINGTON — The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) plans to launch an Internet-based information system designed to better track foreigners who enter the country on student visas. The ...

The $38 million computer system being built to keep track of foreign students will be operational Jan. 30, as required by law, the Immigration and Naturalization Service told a House committee Sept.

The first piece of an automated foreign student tracking system went online July 1 and generated surprisingly brisk traffic from dozens of schools, the Immigration and Naturalization Service said.