The Student and Exchange Visitor Program announced that on May 1, 2009, it would fix a glitch in SEVIS 6.0 batch that rejects OPT edit information batched to SEVIS for student records with an approved period of OPT in which the current date is greater than 60 days after the program end date.

The SEVP notice follows:

SEVIS NOTICE – April 30, 2009

The Student and Exchange Visitor Program Office will upgrade SEVIS to Release 6.0.2 on Friday, May 1, 2009. Release 6.0.2 contains the following change:

- Allow batch users to edit all OPT segments

This upgrade requires an outage of the Production environment. The outage is scheduled to begin tomorrow, May 1st at 8:00 PM EST. During the outage, users will not have access to the Production environment. A follow-up SEVIS notice will be sent to users once the upgrade is complete and the Production environment is available.

FOR BATCH USERS ONLY:

SEVIS Batch File Processing will be unavailable until the scheduled upgrade is complete. Please refrain from uploading files in the Production environment during the outage. Files uploaded during the outage will receive an error and will have to be re-uploaded once the Production environment is available.
If you have any questions regarding Release 6.0.2, please contact the SEVIS Help Desk at 800-892-4829.

Thank you.

Student and Exchange Visitor Program