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What Is the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP)?

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What Is the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP)?

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The SEVP is a statutorily mandated information system designed to electronically track and record the entry and presence in the United States of student and exchange visitor nonimmigrants. The SEVP is the responsibility of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) who has developed the enterprise architecture necessary to implement the electronic tracking of student and exchange visitors. The Department of State (Department) is promulgating this rule in order to advise future applicants for Exchange Visitor Program designation of certain procedures now necessary for [[Page 76308]] the administration and oversight of exchange programs in light of the INS implementation of SEVIS. In September 1996, Pub. L. 104208 (Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA)) was enacted. IIRIRA directed the Attorney General to develop, in consultation with the Department of Education and the Department of State, an electronic information collection system that woul