WASHINGTON – The Scholar and Alternate Customer Program (SEVP), a part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), launched a report detailing the nonimmigrant scholar inhabitants. The report highlights calendar yr 2019 knowledge from the Scholar and Alternate Customer Info System (SEVIS), a web-based system that features details about nonimmigrant college students, change guests and their dependents whereas they’re in the USA.
The report notes that there have been 1.52 million lively information in SEVIS for F-1 and M-1 college students throughout calendar yr 2019, a 1.7 p.c lower from calendar yr 2018. There have been 532,711 information in SEVIS for J-1 change guests throughout calendar yr 2019, a 1.7 p.c enhance from calendar yr 2018. Throughout 2019, a complete of 8,649 U.S. colleges possessed SEVP certification to enroll nonimmigrant college students. Of the licensed colleges that hosted a nonimmigrant scholar, 65 p.c hosted between one and 50 nonimmigrant college students in the course of the calendar yr. 5 SEVP-certified colleges – New York College (19,750), Columbia College within the Metropolis of New York (19,741), Northeastern College (19,410), the College of Southern California (19,063) and the College of Illinois (15,017) – enrolled greater than 15,000 nonimmigrant college students in 2019.
Eighty-six p.c of nonimmigrant college students pursued larger schooling diploma applications in 2019, equating to nearly 1.31 million SEVIS information, which is on par with the variety of college students pursuing larger schooling levels in 2018. The biggest progress and decline got here from college students in search of doctoral and affiliate levels, respectively. Doctoral diploma applications noticed a 5.2 p.c enhance in enrollment, whereas affiliate diploma applications noticed an 8.1 p.c lower. There have been 1.01 million F-1 college students within the U.S. in search of bachelor’s and grasp’s levels in 2019.
Over 78,000 nonimmigrant college students had been enrolled in Ok-12 applications of examine, and about 92 p.c of these college students had been enrolled in secondary college applications (grades 9-12). China despatched extra Ok-12 college students than another nation, comprising almost half of the Ok-12 nonimmigrant scholar inhabitants in 2019.
China (474,497), India (249,221), the Republic of Korea (South Korea) (84,071), and Saudi Arabia (53,283) despatched the most important variety of nonimmigrant college students to check in the USA in calendar years 2017, 2018 and 2019. These 4 international locations noticed decreases within the variety of scholar information in 2019, in comparison with 2018; there have been 4,235 fewer scholar information from China, 2,069 fewer scholar information from India and 4,796 fewer scholar information from the Republic of Korea (South Korea).
Many nonimmigrant college students obtained an Employment Authorization Doc (EAD) by means of Non-compulsory Sensible Coaching (OPT). In 2019, there have been 140,137 pre- and post-completion OPT college students who acquired an EAD and reported working for an employer, a complete of 72,168 STEM OPT college students who acquired an EAD and reported working for an employer, and 116,337 Curricular Sensible Coaching (CPT) college students who acquired an EAD and reported working for an employer.
In 2019, California continued to host extra nonimmigrant college students (294,657) than one other different state, accounting for 19.3 p.c of nonimmigrant college students in the USA. New York and Massachusetts rounded out the highest states for enrollment in 2019 with 174,737 and 102,695, respectively.
The total SEVIS by the Numbers report may be considered on-line, and extra SEVIS knowledge will also be considered within the SEVP Data Library.
ICE critiques SEVIS information for potential violations and refers circumstances with doable nationwide safety or public security issues to its discipline places of work for additional investigation. Moreover, SEVP’s Evaluation and Operations Heart analyzes scholar and faculty information for administrative compliance with federal laws associated to finding out in the USA.
Study extra about SEVP at ICE.gov/SEVP.