{"id":"SEC-15-005","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States","state":"","metro":"","industry":"15","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"ICE SEVP","authority":"8 C.F.R. 214.2(f)(6)(i)(G) (online-course limit)","instrument":"SEVP Broadcast Message 2007-01: COVID-19 and Fall 2020","title":"Broadcast Message: COVID-19 and Fall 2020","dateIssued":"2020-07-06","effective":"2020-07-06 (for the fall 2020 semester)","end":"Rescinded July 14, 2020 (President and Fellows of Harvard College v. DHS, No. 1:20-cv-11283 (D. Mass.)); the March 13, 2020 flexibilities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","startDate":"2020-07-06","endDate":"2020-07-14","quarters":["2020Q3"],"types":["TRAV","OTHER"],"addressees":["SEVP-certified schools","F-1 and M-1 students"],"clause":"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\u0027 SEVIS reporting","functions":["AD","CP","IN","RL","CB"],"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.","sourceUrl":"https://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/bcm2007-01.pdf","snapshot":"http://web.archive.org/web/20200706195010/https://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/bcm2007-01.pdf","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":74231,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-15","url":"/library/SEC-15-005","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-15-005","citation":"ICE SEVP, SEVP Broadcast Message 2007-01: COVID-19 and Fall 2020 (July 6, 2020) (Ex. SEC-15-005)","stateName":"","related":[]}