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Foreign students are valuable to the United States. Most have to pay the full costs for their education. That helps universities meet their (36) . International students and their families put twelve-thousand-million dollars into the American economy last year. That number is from the (37) of International Education, based in New York. Now, many education officials say they are concerned that fewer students will come to the United States for the next school year. The officials base their (38) partly on a decrease in students planning to attend (39) English programs during the summer. Just over half the schools in the American Association of Intensive English Programs were questioned for an online study in May. The members said they (40) nineteen percent fewer students than last summer. They said they expected more than thirty percent fewer students than in the summer of two-thousand-one. The members said one reason for the expected decrease is slower and more (41) United States action on travel documents. Security has increased since the (42) attacks of September eleventh, two-thousand-one. The schools also blamed the travel problems caused by the (43) of SAILS. (44) . The Institute of International Education says these students represent more then four percent of all students in American colleges and universities. (45) . The largest number came from India. Before last year the largest number came from China. For some years now, (46) . These include Jones International University in Englewood, Colorado, and the University of Phoenix in Arizona.