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SEVP Broadcast Message 2007-01: COVID-19 and Fall 2020

Broadcast Message: COVID-19 and Fall 2020

ICE SEVP · United States (Federal)

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Jurisdiction
United States
Level
Federal
Authority
8 C.F.R. 214.2(f)(6)(i)(G) (online-course limit)
Issued
2020-07-06 July 6, 2020
Effective
2020-07-06 (for the fall 2020 semester) (read as 2020-07-06)
End
Rescinded July 14, 2020 (President and Fellows of Harvard College v. DHS, No. 1:20-cv-11283 (D. Mass.)); the March 13, 2020 flexibilities restored (read as 2020-07-14)
In force
July 6, 2020 to July 14, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q3
Limitation types
Travel and quarantineOther
Addressees
  • SEVP-certified schools
  • F-1 and M-1 students
Functions reached
  • AD
  • CP
  • IN
  • RL
  • CB
Collection
Education and Child Care SEC-15

Operative words

Temporary procedural adaptations related to online courses permitted by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP)... will be modified for the fall 2020 semester.... For the fall 2020 semester, SEVP is modifying these temporary exemptions.

Enforcement

Student status; visa issuance; schools' SEVIS reporting

Notes

For eight days in July 2020 the federal government told every college that students in fully online programs could not remain in the United States; colleges re-planned their fall instruction models in response; the rescission restored the March 2020 rule, under which new students could not enter for online-only study, which reached fall-2020 admissions and campus housing.

Retrieval note

Litigation history from the public docket; state it as the rescission's date (July 14, 2020) only.

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