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Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS)

The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) is a government, computerized system that maintains and manages data about foreign students and exchange visitors during their stay in the united States. For more than 50 years, U.S. educational institutions have been required to maintain such information about foreign students studying at their facilities. In the past, this was a decentralized, inefficient, and paper-driven system. SEVIS, for the first time, automates and centralizes this data. SEVIS allows for real-time access to this information and helps students comply with the terms of their visas.

Congress mandated August 1, 2003 as the deadline for all new and continuing students and exchange visitors to be entered in SEVIS.

For more information, please visit http://www.ice.gov/graphics/enforce/imm/imm_sevis.htm
 

•      SEVP/SEVIS Program Information

•      SEVIS Informational Packet

•      SEVIS Technical Guidance