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SEVP Portal Release 3.0 Planning Guide

SEVP Portal Release 3.0 Planning Guide

Last updated: November 18, 2020

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Functionality in the Release
SEVP Portal Unavailability
Release Resources (available after the release)

Scheduled Release Date: November 20, 2020

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Functionality	Notes
Students can change their Contact and Employment Information up to 15 days after the end of optional practical training (OPT).
Portal will send a new account creation email for a new period of OPT, even though the student did not create a Portal account during a prior OPT period.
“Expand All” and “Collapse All” options added to the History section.
SEVP Portal’s Account Closed status will display in the student’s SEVIS Event History page.
Text fields will have a Characters Remaining countdown field, starting at 1000 characters.

Outage Begins	Outage Scheduled to End
Friday, Nov. 20, 2020 at 8:00 PM (ET)	Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020 at 12:00 AM (ET)

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

SEVP Portal Student User Guide
SEVIS and the SEVP Portal Article

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