SEVIS Release 6.33 Planning Guide

Last updated: April 7, 2020

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Scheduled Release Date: April 28, 2017
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System Unavailability
Batch Users

Functionality in the Release

Functionality	Affects F/M SEVIS	Affects J SEVIS	Affects Batch
School information page displays upload information and Program History	Yes	No	No
The Portal indicator on the Student Information page reflects the status of student’s Portal account	Yes	No	No
Revision to Students with Portal account list	Yes	No	No
Attestations recorded to History page	Yes	No	No
EIN and supervisor information required in Batch for STEM OPT	Yes	No	Yes
Require EIN only for STEM students	Yes	No	No
SEVIS Log in Page to reflect current SEVIS version and allow messages to users	Yes	Yes	No
Additional events recorded in Program History	No	Yes	No
Confirmation message added before changing EV status to Terminated	No	Yes	No

Note: While SEVIS will require a password that is 12-16 characters long when you create or change a password, you can still log in to SEVIS with your current 8-character password until it expires.

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SEVIS 6.33 Release Planning Guide
Log In and Out article will be updated to include the new Log In screen

Outage Begins	Outage Scheduled to End
Friday, April 28, 2017 at 8:00 PM (ET)	Friday, April 28, 2017 at 11:59 PM (ET)

Currently, SEVP expects the outage to last four hours (approximately).

Schools and sponsors that use third-party software to push data to SEVIS must plan their batch uploads carefully.

The update to the system does not involve a change to the batch schema. Schools that cannot deploy their batch vendor’s updates to their batch software by the release date will still be able to submit registration events via batch.

Critical Date/Time	What Happens
Friday, April 28, 2017 at 8:00 – 11:59 PM (ET)	SEVIS is unavailable for batch uploads.

No warnings issued at this time.

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