London, May 4 (ANI): The U.S. has tightened its screening of international students, its first security change after the Boston Marathon bombings last month.
The move comes after a student from Kazakhstan, who did not have a valid visa, was accused by police of hiding evidence for one of the bomb suspects.
According to the BBC, the Department of Homeland Security has ordered border agents to automatically check the visa status of every student.
The 19-year-old appeared in court on Wednesday for allegedly helping to throw out a backpack belonging to his friend, Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The Department of Homeland Security will ‘effective immediately’ verify that every international student visa is valid.
Under the new procedures, border agents will verify a student’s visa status before the person arrives in the US, using information provided in flight manifests, the report added. (ANI)