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Harvard received INS approval to use the database on the afternoon of Jan. 30, meeting the first registration deadline. Since then, it has been required to enter information from any visa applications that pass through its office in the SEVIS database.
Unlike the former system of information gathering, through which U.S. schools would send information about its international students to the INS for entry by hand, SEVIS establishes a single, nationwide database and requires institutions to update it themselves.
A previous incarnation of SEVIS, which Congress mandated in 1996, met with strong opposition from lobbyists within the educational community, according to an INS official. Colleges and universities feared that, in order to fund the development of a national student database, tuition would have to be raised to a degree...
The INS eliminated SEVIS training sessions in August, replacing them with telephone help lines and video explanations of the new service.
On Jan. 27, the INS held workshops throughout the country to address mounting confusion as the deadline for SEVIS implementation approached.