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| 2003 || January 31 || || || Mandatory SEVIS use begins on this date.<ref name=shareok/>
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| 2006 || August || || || Out of 17 Egyptian students who arrive on July 29, 2006 in the United States, due to report at Montana State University for an a one-month exchange program, only 6 show up at the university. Of the 11 missing students, 9 are apprehended by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement with help from the FBI for administrative immigration violations.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/12/egyptian.students/|title = Nine Egyptian students in U.S. custody|date = August 12, 2006|accessdate = July 20, 2020|publisher = CNN}}</ref> None of them are found to have terrorist or criminal connections, and Dean Boyd, a spokesman for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, says the missing students "had no intention of attending the program and simply wanted to earn more money and stay and look for a better life in America."<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5665195|title = Web-Based System Finds Missing Foreign Students|last = Korry|first = Elaine|date = August 17, 2006|accessdate = July 20, 2020}}</ref> A Congressional Research Service report would cite this as a claimed success of SEVIS as a recordkeeping system.<ref name=crs-2008/>
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| 2020 || {{dts|March 9}}, March 13 || Guidance || ICE SEVP || In two pieces of guidance published on March 9 and March 13, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement temporarily modifies the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) in response to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic in the United States}}. The guidance allows students in F-1 or M-1 status to retain student status while staying in the United States if their school is temporarily closed due to COVID-19, and to maintain status by enrolling in courses online if their school switches coursework to online, whether inside or outside the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.ice.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Document/2020/Coronavirus%20Guidance_3.13.20.pdf|title = COVID-19: Guidance for SEVP Stakeholders|date = March 13, 2020|accessdate = July 20, 2020|publisher = U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement}}</ref> This temporary modification is extended through the spring and summer, but an announcement on July 6, 2020 partially repeals it for the autumn (fall) of 2020.
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