SEVIS Release 6.82.1 Planning Guide

Last updated: April 10, 2025

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Functionality in the Release
System Unavailability
Batch Users

Scheduled Release Date: Friday, April 25, 2025

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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

Affects

F/M SEVIS

Affects

J SEVIS

Affects

Batch

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

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

No

Outage Begins	Outage Scheduled to End
Friday, April 25, 2025, at 8 PM (EDT)	Saturday, April 26, 2025, at 12 AM (EDT)

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, April 25, 2025, at 8 PM (EDT) to Saturday, April 26, 2025, at 12 AM (EDT)	SEVIS is unavailable for batch uploads.