As of March 23, 2018, the Department of Homeland Security’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) will require students on F-1 OPT to update the mandatory SEVIS reporting requirements of personal and employment changes through the SEVP Portal, including initial employment.
All SEVP Portal communications will only be sent to your @stanford.edu email address. Make sure that your primary and preferred email address in Axess lists your @stanford.edu email address. Student's @stanford.edu email address will remain active for the duration of OPT and STEM OPT.
All address, telephone and employer changes must be reported in the SEVP Portal within 10 days of the change. Students on F-1 OPT will no longer need to update this information through the Bechtel International Center.
Students on STEM OPT cannot use the Portal to add an employer and/or report any material changes to their employment. Students must contact the Bechtel International Center directly with the Form I-983 using The STEM Reporting Updates Form
OPT Approved and Active students are only eligible to access the Portal when:
In order to create an individual account in the SEVP Portal, students must have their @stanford.edu email address listed as their primary email address in Axess. Please be sure that your primary email is also checked as "preferred" in the box next to the email address. A student's @stanford.edu email address is the email address that is saved in SEVIS. This is the only email address to which the account information will be sent. You will also need to use this email address to log into your SEVP Portal account after the portal has been created.
Using the email address in SEVIS (as described above), SEVP will send students an email inviting them to open an account for the SEVP Portal. This email invitation will be sent from the following email address: do-not-reply.SEVP@ice.dhs.gov. The student should follow the instructions on the email using his/her SEVIS ID number to create a password for the account.
***Please note that the password resets or account unlocks go through our office. As such, we are only able to complete your request during normal business hours. Please anticipate password resets and account unlocks to take 1-2 business days.***
You will need to use your @stanford.edu email address to log into your SEVP Portal account.
F-1 OPT students may continue to update address information and employment changes directly into the SEVP Portal.
F-1 STEM OPT students will need to update update address information into the SEVP Portal and employment information through Bechtel International Center.
Detailed information on the SEVP Portal can be found here.