Six months after the September 11th tragedy, Huffman Aviation International, a small flight training school in Venice, Florida, received official documents from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) allowing Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehhi (2 of the 19 plane hijackers) to attend their school. Subsequently, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) investigated the circumstances surrounding that ordeal, and recorded the outcome of that investigation in this newly released report. This report reveals OIG's analysis and conclusions regarding Atta's and Alshehhi's entries into the US, INS's processing of Atta's and Alshehhi's change of status applications and the I-20 forms associated with those applications, and INS's system for monitoring and tracking foreign students in the US. At the report's end, OIG provides 24 systematic recommendations addressing the inadequacies regarding INS's practices and procedures.
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