SEVIS Release 6.35 Planning Guide

Last updated: April 9, 2020

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Scheduled Release Date: July 21, 2017
Release-Related Webinars
Release Resources
System Unavailability
Batch Users

Functionality in the Release

Functionality	Affects F/M SEVIS	Affects J SEVIS	Affects Batch
Certification expiration date changesCertification expiration date changesCertification expiration date changesCertification expiration date changes	Yes	No	No
Edit petition, as part of recertification	Yes	No	No
Upload evidence for initial Form I-17, petition updates, and recertification (TBD)	Yes	No	No
Upload evidence for correction requests	Yes	No	No
STEM OPT changes: Adding checkbox for DSO to indicate receipt of student's STEM self-evaluation Changing SEVIS' calculation of STEM end date to match USCIS' approved end date	Yes	No	No

SEVIS 6.35 Pre-Release Webinar (June 30, 2017) (Resource outdated)

Note: This link has been disabled. You can visit the SEVIS Webinar page for all release webinars.

SEVIS Form I-17 Petition Update (Resource outdated)
Upload Evidence – Correction Requests (Resource outdated)
Upload Evidence – Form I-17 (Resources outdated)

Note: These links have been disabled. You can find the most recent versions of these articles in the School Certification page on the Help Hub.

Outage Begins	Outage Scheduled to End
Friday, July 21, 2017 at 8:00 PM (ET)	Friday, July 21, 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/TimeCritical Date/Time	What HappensWhat Happens
Friday, July 21, 2017 at 8:00 – 11:59 PM (ET)Friday, July 21, 2017 at 8:00 – 11:59 PM (ET)	SEVIS is unavailable for batch uploads.SEVIS is unavailable for batch uploads.SEVIS is unavailable for batch uploads.SEVIS is unavailable for batch uploads.

No warnings issued at this time.

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