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Timeline of student visa policy in the United States

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| 1924 || || || || The United States Congress requires consular officers to make a determination of admissibility prior to issuing a visa.<ref name=americanbar/>
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| 1952 || {{dts|June 27}} || Legislation || || The {{w|Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952}} becomes law after both chambers of the {{w|82nd United States Congress}} vote to override the veto of President {{W|Harry S. Truman}}. Among other things, this Act begins the processing of formalizing non-immigrant classifications using letters of the alphabet; student status gets the letter F.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-66/pdf/STATUTE-66-Pg163.pdf|title = Public Law 414: Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952|date = June 27, 1952|accessdate = July 20, 2020}}</ref>
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| 1978 || {{dts|November 16}} (final rule), January 1, 1979 (effective date) || Regulation (final rule) || Immigration and Naturalization Services, present equivalent: ICE SEVP || A new rule related to foreign students is included in the ''{{w|Federal Register}}''. p. 54618 onward. The new rule implements "duration of status" for students (effective January 1979), allowing students to get visas to study for more than one year, and also provide updated details related to temporary absence, extensions (using Form I-538), employment, and practical training. As of this time, the I-20 and I-94 are already in use.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.loc.gov/item/fr043226/|title = Federal Register: 43 Fed. Reg. 54617 (Nov. 22, 1978).|date = November 22, 1978|accessdate = July 20, 2020|pages = 54618-54621}}</ref><ref name=crs-2008>{{cite web|url = Foreign Students in the United States: Policies and Legislation|last = Haddal|first = Chad|date = January 31, 2008|accessdate = July 20, 2020}}</ref>
| 1995 || || || || On April 17, the Deputy Attorney General asks the INS Commissioner to address the issues from the Department of Justice report. The INS forms a task force in June 1995 to conduct a comprehensive review of the F, M, and J visa processes. Besides the INS, the task force includes members from the State Department and the United States Information Agency, and experts in the administration of international student programs.<ref name=ins-fsp-report/> The task force report, issued on December 22, 1995, identified problems in the tracking and monitoring of students by schools, problems in the certification of schools by the INS, and problems with INS receiving and maintaining up-to-date records from schools.<ref name=ins-fsp-report/> Based on this, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) directs the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of State, to develop and conduct a program to collect certain information on nonimmigrant foreign students and exchange visitors from approved institutions of higher education and designated exchange visitor programs.<ref name=ins-fsp-report/><ref name=shareok/>
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| 1997 || June || || || The INS launches a pilot program for a centralized electronic reporting system for institutions, called the Coordinated Interagency Partnership Regulating International Students (CIPRIS). The CIPRIS pilot would officially end in October 1999, as the INS felt it had gathered enough data from the prototype to start working on the nationwide system.<ref name=ins-fsp-report/><ref name=crs-2008/>
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| 1999 || || || || Based on experience gathered from the CIPRIS pilot, the INS begins work on what would be called the {{w|Student and Exchange Visitor Program}} (SEVP), with the associated information system called the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS). SEVIS meets with considerable initial opposition from the {{w|Association of International Educators}} and {{w|American Council on Education}}, but they claim that their opposition is not to the program in principle but concern that a botched rollout could affect many students.<ref name=shareok/><ref name=ins-fsp-report/>
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