The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s keen interest in the release of a Pakistani scientist serving an 86-year prison term in Texas drew attention to U.S. student visa laws, but experts say the concern is overblown.

Before ISIS circulated a video of American journalist James Foley’s beheading last week, it demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a U.S.-educated neuroscientist known throughout the Middle East as “Lady al Qaeda.”

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