SEVIS Release 6.32 Planning Guide

Last updated: April 7, 2020

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Scheduled Release Date: March 10, 2017
Release-Related Webinars
Release Resources
System Unavailability
Batch Users

Functionality in the Release

Functionality	Affects F/M SEVIS	Affects J SEVIS	Affects Batch
Program Event History Designation Sponsor Updates Annual report	No	Yes	Yes
Ability to edit Secondary School Student’s site of activity after visa issuance if in Initial status	No	Yes	No
Downloadable Exchange Visitor Report	No	Yes	No
New Termination Reason: “Failure to Comply with I-515A” (government use only, but school and sponsor officials will see the reason in Event History)	Yes	Yes	No
Increase length of SEVIS Password to 12-16 characters	Yes	Yes	No
Upload Evidence for I-17 (functionality will be disabled upon deployment)	Yes	No	No
I-17 Event History Page updates	Yes	No	No
Downloadable Student Report	Yes	No	No

Note: While SEVIS will require a password that is 12-16 characters long when you create or change a password, you can still log in to SEVIS with your current 8-character password until it expires.

SEVIS 6.32 Pre-Release Webinar (February 10, 2017) (Resource outdated)

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

SEVIS 6.32 Release Planning Guide
User Guide: Downloadable Student Report
SEVIS Help Hub articles to be revised:
- SEVIS Passwords
- Termination Reasons Job Aid

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

No warnings issued at this time.

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