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SEVIS Deadline Looms

Technology provider for colleges and universities introduces software for tracking and verifying international students.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- New legislation that requires colleges to maintain up-to-date information on foreign students and exchange visitors to ensure they are accounted for and are where they should be, takes effect January 30.

The new Student Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) program is an Internet-based system supporting the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), a partnership project between the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the Department of State and the Department of Education. Jenzabar, a software solution provider for higher education, developed the program.

"Complying with SEVIS requirements will help higher education develop policies that protect United States citizens," said Bob Maginn, CEO of Jenzabar. "Jenzabar is committed to providing the technology that our customers will need to comply with the SEVP requirements. With SEVIS, schools and the government will now have a means to ensure that international students are using the American educational system for what it is intended-to receive a world-class educational experience."

The SEVIS system enables schools and program sponsors to transmit electronic information and event notifications via the Internet to the INS and the Department of State for the duration of a student or exchange visitor's stay in the United States. SEVIS also allows printing of the appropriate forms and provides reminders, alerts and basic reporting capabilities.

The Internet-based SEVIS product operates both within Jenzabar ERP systems and Jenzabar's Internet Campus Solution. Jenzabar will enable its customers to pull SEVIS data from the ERP system where it is tracked and include it in the SEVIS Batch Interface file layout.

The company will provide new data entry screens for data elements not included in the current product. Data elements that are already being tracked by schools can be easily copied into the equivalent SEVIS column for consolidated reporting. Schools can then generate reports to list all new or changed records that need to be reported to SEVIS.