SEVIS Release 6.82.1 Planning Guide

Last updated: May 8, 2025

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Functionality in the Release
System Unavailability
Batch Users

Scheduled Release Date: Friday, May 16, 2025

In accordance with Executive Order 14168, Defending Women from Gender Ideology, Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government:

Functionality	Affects F/M SEVIS	Affects J SEVIS	Affects Batch
All SEVIS data fields labeled Gender will be changed to Sex.	Yes	Yes	No
The ‘Other’ option will no longer be available for the Sex data field when creating or updating an Initial F/M student, Exchange Visitor (EV), and dependent SEVIS record. If an EV’s Sex is ‘Other,’ it must be changed if changes are made on the Biographical Information page.	Yes	Yes	No

Functionality

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F/M SEVIS

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J SEVIS

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Batch

All SEVIS data fields labeled Gender will be changed to Sex.

Yes

The ‘Other’ option will no longer be available for the Sex data field when creating or updating an Initial F/M student, Exchange Visitor (EV), and dependent SEVIS record. If an EV’s Sex is ‘Other,’ it must be changed if changes are made on the Biographical Information page.

Yes

Outage Begins	Outage Scheduled to End
Friday, May 16, 2025, at 8 PM (EDT)	Saturday, May 17, 2025, at 12 AM (EDT)

SEVIS Release 6.82.1 only affects the SEVIS real-time interface (RTI). SEVP will release these functionalities for SEVIS Batch at a later date. Until the SEVIS Batch Release, SEVIS users should only use the Male and Female sex options when Batching after Release 6.82.1 is deployed. Schools and sponsors that use third-party software to push data to SEVIS must plan their batch uploads carefully.

Critical Date/Time	What Happens
Friday, May 16, 2025, at 8 PM (EDT) to Saturday, May 17, 2025, at 12 AM (EDT)	SEVIS is unavailable for batch uploads.