SEVIS Release 6.31 Planning Guide

Last updated: March 12, 2020

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Scheduled Release Date: December 18, 2016
Release-Related Webinars
Release Resources
System Unavailability
Batch Users

Please note: Some of the following functionality will be included in the February 2017 SEVIS Release.

Functionality in the Release

Functionality	Affects F/M SEVIS	Affects J SEVIS	Affects Batch
Ability to submit a foreign telephone number during registration events	Yes	No	Yes
Security warning page upon initial log in	Yes	Yes	No
Upload Evidence: Correction Requests Form I-17 submissions	Yes	No	No
Send and receive data to SEVP Portal	Yes	No	No
Screen changes to reflect SEVP Portal information for students on post-completion OPT: OPT Request Employer Information Employment Information page Student Event History	Yes	No	No
Notifications to school officials of data changes made by the student via the SEVP Portal: New Alert List Downloadable report	Yes	No	No
DSO ability to submit request to : Resend initial email to student for portal access Unlock student’s portal account	Yes	No	No
J-1 Transfer Release Date can be the same as the Program End Date	No	Yes	No

SEVIS 6.31 Pre-Release Webinar (December 2, 2016) (Resource outdated)
SEVIS 6.31 Post-Release Webinar (January 20, 2017) (Resources outdated)

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

Release Planning Guide (Resource outdated)
User Guide: F/M OPT and the SEVP Portal (Resource outdated)

Note: These links have been disabled. You can find the most recent versions of these articles in the F/M Student Employment page on the Help Hub.

Outage Begins	Outage Scheduled to End
Sunday, December 18, 2016 at TBD (ET)	Sunday, December 18, 2016 at TBD (ET)

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

Note: This release is scheduled for a Sunday, instead of the normal Friday release date, due to other U.S. Government requirements.

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
Sunday, December 18, 2016 at TBD (ET)	SEVIS is unavailable for batch uploads.

No warnings issued at this time.

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