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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Last week, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) implemented Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) release 6.16. This release means improvements when searching for nonimmigrants by SEVIS ID numbers and for working with lists of nonimmigrants in SEVIS. For the first time…
The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) is excited to announce the deployment of the first 15 field representatives as part of the new Field Representative Unit. Field representatives will serve as direct day‑to‑day liaisons between SEVP and certified schools. They will also serve to…
All F and M students who study in the United States need to pay the I-901 SEVIS Fee before applying for a visa to enter the country. If you plan to use Western Union to pay your fee, the process has changed to allow for immediate receipt of your I-901 payment. There is no change to the payment…
If you have been accepted to a Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP)-certified school, you are probably hearing plenty of new terms related to studying in the United States. If you are not sure what a Form I-20, “Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant Student Status,” or the…