{"id":1112,"date":"2003-08-02T10:21:20","date_gmt":"2003-08-02T14:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/02\/sevis-takes-form\/"},"modified":"2003-08-02T10:21:20","modified_gmt":"2003-08-02T14:21:20","slug":"sevis-takes-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/02\/sevis-takes-form\/","title":{"rendered":"SEVIS Takes Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a475'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After several false starts and software glitches, SEVIS, the national system to track foreign students in the United States, has gone online.  As the Aug 1 deadline passed, there are isolated reports of long waits for the now-obligatory interviews and increasing difficulties for foreign students just beginning to arrive for the &#8217;03-&#8217;04 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>When the foreign visitors show up on campus, the school is required to update the SEVIS database to verify that they did indeed arrive. Any time a student changes his address, goes on medical leave, gets a part-time job, or drops a course, his database record will have to be updated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;It&#8217;s hard to be confident it will work, because it hasn&#8217;t worked yet,&#8221; said Victor Johnson of the Association of International Educators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailyglobe2\/214\/nation\/Colleges_pass_test_by_building_database_on_foreign_students+.shtml\">from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several false starts and software glitches, SEVIS, the national system to track foreign students in the United States, has gone online. As the Aug 1 deadline passed, there are isolated reports of long waits for the now-obligatory interviews and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/02\/sevis-takes-form\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}