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System Actions and Messages

Last updated 2-Aug-2017

Learn information about the changes SEVIS makes to records and how the system communicates with users.

Error Messages

In this section, find information on how error messages display in SEVIS.

15 day PDSO correction
Action Buttons
add official
add PSDO
Alerts
Annual break
annual vacation
attendance
campus roles
cancel
Cap Gap H-1B
change academic level
change dates
change program date
change PSDO
change role
change roles
change school officials
change status
change termination
change to program dates
Collapse Icon
Collapse View
Continued attendance
correct OPT
correct program dates
correct record
correct registration
correct status
correct termination
correction
correction request
correction requests
CPT
data correction
data fix
defer
delete DSO
delete official
delete PSDO
Dependants
Dependent
Dependents
downloads
DSO changes
DSO roles
Email
employer information
Employment
employment history
Employment Information
Event History
Expand Icon
Expanded View
extend program
Extend Stay
Extent Status
F-1 Extension
failure to maintain status
Find Student
Form I-17
Form I-17 update
Form I-20
H-1B
help desk
I-17 signatures
Initial
locked I-17
M-1
mass actions
mass reprint
Names
Navigation Bar
off-campus employment
OPT
OPT Extension
Page Components
PDSO changes
PDSO correction
practical training
Program Date(s)
program dates
program end date
program start date
Quick Search
reassign campus roles
reassign role
reduced course load (RCL)
Register
Registration
Reporting
Reprint
request change
request status
return active
return to active
return to initial
school official roles
school officials
School Types
Search
Session break
SEVIS ID Search
SEVIS Listing of Schools
SEVIS Log In
SEVIS Log On
SEVIS Log Out
SEVIS Login
SEVIS roles
SEVP Portal
Standard Page Components
status
STEM
STEM OPT
Student Lists
termaination reasons
terminate
terminate dependent
terminate status
terminate student
terminated
termination
termination reason
termination reasons
Terminations
transfer
transfer school
transfer student
transfer-in
transfer-out
unemployment counter
update official
vacation
violate status