SEVIS Call Summary - Technical - 2005/06

Summary of NAFSA's June 22, 2005 liaison call with DHS and DOS regarding SEVIS. Topics covered include:

1. Future alerts planned for SEVIS 5.1
2. Will it be possible to cancel a CPT period prior to the CPT start date in SEVIS?
3. No plans to change the limit on extending a program to one year at a time
4. Cancel Transfer prior to release date missing from SEVIS 5.0
5. Transfer-in school procedures where school does not hear from student
6. No current function for transfer-in school to cancel transfer-in record
7. Summer 2005 transfer-in malfunctions reported
8. SEVIS updates – specifically validating programs
9. SEVIS 5. 0 production issue
10. Creating batch EV events with more than one site of activity