I'm a New DSO. What Now?
June 18, 2025
Being nominated as a designated school official (DSO) at a Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP)-certified school is a significant…
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The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) will soon require school officials filing an initial petition or an update to their school’s Form I-17, “Petition for Approval of School Attendance by Nonimmigrant Student,” to submit the minimum evidence required for filing at the…
Approximately 42 percent of all F and M international students in the United States study science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), according to the latest SEVIS by the Numbers report available on ICE.gov.Engineering, computer and information sciences, and biological and biomedical…
This quarter’s SEVIS by the Numbers report focuses on the approximately 80,000 F and M students from Europe currently studying in the United States. Of these European F and M students, around 44 percent are located in California, New York and Massachusetts.The report indicates that…
There are currently 1.11 million F and M students studying in the United States, a 5.5 percent increase since July 2015, according to the latest SEVIS by the Numbers report now available on ICE.gov. There was a similar 5 percent growth rate in the number of J-1 exchange visitors currently…