[参考译文]近日,美国一教育小组声称:如果政府追踪外国留学生的新系统不能如国会所要求的那样到明年年初就正常运转的话,将有8万学生束手无策地等待着赴美的签证。移民归化局的一位官员告知众议院小组委员会,这套斥资3700万美元的系统应该在明年1月30日前启用,约1000多所院校届时将提供详细的留学生入学信息。国会已经要求移民归化局在2003年年初之前建成Sevis系统(即学生与访问学者信息汇报系统),使其正常运转。但美国教育部部长戴维·沃德在两院的教育小组 Recently, an education group in the United States claimed that if the government’s new system for tracking foreign students cannot function as expected by the Congress early next year, 80,000 students will be waiting for visas to the United States. An official from the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization informed the House Subcommittee that the $37 million system should be opened before January 30 next year, and that more than 1,000 institutions will provide detailed information on international student enrollment. The National Assembly has asked the Immigration and Naturalization Bureau to establish the Sevis system (ie student and visiting scholar information reporting system) before the beginning of 2003 so that it can function normally. But the United States Department of Education David Ward’s education team in both houses