WASHINGTON – The Pupil and Change Customer Program (SEVP), a part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI), launched a report Wednesday detailing the nonimmigrant scholar inhabitants. The report highlights calendar yr 2018 information from the Pupil and Change Customer Info System (SEVIS), a Internet-based system that features details about nonimmigrant college students, alternate guests and their dependents whereas they’re in the USA.
The report notes there have been 1.55 million lively information for F-1 and M-1 nonimmigrant college students in SEVIS throughout calendar yr 2018, a 1.7 p.c lower from calendar yr 2017, and there have been 8,936 U.S. faculties licensed by SEVP to enroll nonimmigrant college students. Sixty-five p.c of faculties that enrolled at the least one scholar in 2018 hosted between one and 50 nonimmigrant college students throughout the calendar yr; solely 4 SEVP-certified faculties – Columbia College (18,573), New York College (18,481), the College of Southern California (18,345) and Northeastern College (18,123) – enrolled greater than 15,000 nonimmigrant college students in 2018.
Eighty-five p.c of nonimmigrant college students pursued larger schooling diploma packages in 2018, equating to about 1.3 million SEVIS information, which is on par with the variety of college students pursuing larger schooling levels in 2017. Round 85,000 nonimmigrant college students had been enrolled in Ok-12 packages of examine, and about 92 p.c of these college students had been enrolled in secondary faculty packages (grades 9-12). China despatched extra Ok-12 college students than every other nation, comprising about half of the Ok-12 nonimmigrant scholar inhabitants in 2018.
Asia remained the highest continent of origin for nonimmigrant college students with 1.17 million scholar information in SEVIS in 2018, a 1.9 p.c lower within the nonimmigrant scholar inhabitants from Asia from 2017. In calendar yr 2018, solely the continents of South America and Australia/Pacific Islands noticed development within the nonimmigrant scholar inhabitants, rising by 2,703 and 102 scholar information, respectively.
China (478,732), India (251,290) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) (88,867) despatched the biggest variety of nonimmigrant college students in each calendar yr 2017 and 2018. Of those nations, solely the variety of college students from India elevated from 2017 to 2018 (+4,157). The variety of college students from China (-147) and Republic of Korea (South Korea) (-6,403) decreased over the identical interval.
In 2018, 145,564 nonimmigrant college students acquired an Employment Authorization Doc (EAD) and had been employed in pre- and post-completion non-obligatory sensible coaching (OPT). This marks a 5 p.c lower from 2017. Practically 70,000 nonimmigrant college students acquired an EAD and had been employed in science, know-how, engineering and arithmetic (STEM) OPT in 2018, in comparison with 64,481 in calendar yr 2017, greater than an 8 p.c improve. There have been 151,525 nonimmigrant college students that acquired an EAD and had been employed in curricular sensible coaching (CPT) in 2018, in comparison with 132,380 in 2017, greater than a 14 p.c improve.
In 2018, California hosted 302,073 nonimmigrant college students, the biggest proportion of nonimmigrant college students (19.5%) of any U.S. state. New York, Texas and Massachusetts every hosted greater than 100,000 nonimmigrant college students and rounded out the highest states for enrollment in 2018.
The total SEVIS by the Numbers report might be seen on-line, and extra SEVIS information may also be seen within the SEVP Data Library.
People can even discover and drill down point-in-time nonimmigrant scholar information by means of SEVP’s interactive mapping tool. This info is viewable on the continent, area and nation degree and consists of info on gender and schooling ranges, in addition to nonimmigrant scholar populations by state, damaged down by geographical areas throughout the globe.
SEVP displays a couple of million nonimmigrant college students pursuing tutorial or vocational research (F and M visa holders) in the USA and their dependents. It additionally certifies faculties and packages that enroll these college students. The U.S. Division of State displays alternate guests (J visa holders) and their dependents and oversees alternate customer packages.
Each use SEVIS to guard nationwide safety by guaranteeing that college students, guests and faculties adjust to U.S. legal guidelines. SEVP additionally collects and shares SEVIS info with authorities companions, together with U.S. Customs and Border Safety and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Companies, to cut back fraud.
HSI opinions SEVIS information for potential violations and refers instances with potential nationwide safety or public security considerations to its subject places of work for additional investigation. Moreover, SEVP’s Evaluation and Operations Middle analyzes scholar and faculty information for administrative compliance with federal rules associated to learning in the USA.
Be taught extra about SEVP at ICE.gov/SEVP.
