"I think it is certainly embarrassing that the letters show up at this late date," said INS spokesman Russ Bergeron. "It does serve to illustrate what we have been saying since 1995 -- that the current system for collecting information and tracking foreign students is antiquated, outdated, inaccurate and untimely."
Then you, Russ Bergeron, and all of your superiors should have been fired by 1996 at the latest.
Thats how a for-profit corporation would have gotten the problem fixed.