Compliance Management

The new URL for accessing the SEVIS production environment is https://sevis.ice.gov. A System Note on the SEVIS login page states: " IMPORTANT: The SEVIS Production environment and URL migration was successful. You should begin using https://sevis.ice.gov for SEVIS Production access." In Broadcast

Beginning January 20, 2025 this NAFSA page will link to agency actions during the second Trump administration that relate to international education, including proposed federal regulations, final regulations, and agency policy documents and statements. Federal agencies are part of the Executive

On December 18, 2024, USCIS published a final rule titled Modernizing H-1B Requirements, Providing Flexibility in the F-1 Program, and Program Improvements Affecting Other Nonimmigrant Workers. The rule became effective 30 days later, on January 17, 2025. Read the final rule published at 89 FR

INA 212(f); 8 USC 1182(f) grants a President broad power to suspend or impose restrictions, "by proclamation," on the entry of "aliens" (the INA defines alien as "any person not a citizen or national of the United States") when he or she finds that such entry "would be detrimental to the interests

Below for reference are listed certain executive and agency actions affecting higher education immigration under the first Trump administration (January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021). Bolter, Jessica, Emma Israel, and Sarah Pierce. Four Years of Profound Change: Immigration Policy during the Trump

The Department of State's (DOS) 2024 Revised Exchange Visitor Skills List became effective on December 9, 2024, and applies to exchange visitors who acquire J-1 status on or after December 9, 2024, and exchange visitors who had been subject to INA 212(e) on the skills list basis under a prior list

This NAFSA page collects U.S. government immigration resources for individuals affected by events in Lebanon. DOS Visa Processing Guidance The U.S. Department of State (DOS) published a page on U.S. Visa Guidance for Individuals Affected by Events in Lebanon, which covers both immigrant and

On December 6, 2024, the Department of Homeland Security published a Federal Register notice titled Termination of Arrival Restrictions Applicable to Flights Carrying Persons Who Have Recently Traveled From or Were Otherwise Present Within Rwanda . See 89 FR 96898 (December 6, 2024). Document