• Change to date range when DSOs can access the Report OPT Participation page
  • SEVIS will display the link to access the Report OPT Participation page 30 days before the reporting deadline.
  • SEVIS will continue to display the link for 31 days after the deadline

Note: this timeframe applies to reporting both the 6-month periodic validation reports and self-evaluations.

• Report receipt of 12-month and 24-month STEM OPT Self Evaluation - To accommodate the 12- and 24-month evaluation due date, on the Report OPT Participation page, SEVIS will display a second checkbox that allows DSOs to indicate receipt of the self-evaluation from students on STEM OPT. 

SEVIS will display the event in the student’s event history as either “STEM OPT 12-month Participation Reported” or “STEM OPT 24-month Participation Reported.”

• SEVIS Release 6.37 Planning Guide (Resource outdated)
• Revision to F-1 OPT – STEM Extension User Guide (Resource outdated)

Note: These links have been disabled, the most recent versions of this article can be found on the F/M Student Employment page on the Help Hub.

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.