Users may wish to request one or more Initial I-20s at a time from SEVIS in a batch. This can be done in Activities, in conjunction with an existing saved query.
- Go to SEVIS Admin > Activities
- Click Request Initial I-20s.
A new page will appear that contains all the required fields to request one or more initial I-20s. First select Active/Initial users for whom you wish to request an I-20, or select a Saved Query (see #22).
- Educational Information Questionnaire: This will display to indicate the educational information questionnaire responses that will be created in Terra Dotta from the initial I-20 data that you enter here.
- Financial Information Questionnaire: This will display to indicate the financial information questionnaire responses that will be created in Terra Dotta from the initial I-20 data that you enter here.
- Issue reason: Select the issue reason from the dropdown menu.
- Remarks: Enter remarks that will display on page 1 of the I-20.
- Commuting from Canada or Mexico: Select Yes or No.
- Normal length of study: Enter the number of months typically required to complete the program.
- English required: Select Yes or No.
- English requirement met: Select Yes or No. If English is not required and the answer to #7 was No, do not complete this field.
- If English requirement is not met, enter reason why: Explain here why the student has not met the English requirement or the reason why English is not required to participate in the program. For example, "Students will engage in intensive language training."
- Number of months in academic term: Enter the number of months in an academic term. For example, 9 or 12.
- Expenses: Tuition: Enter the estimated cost of tuition for the number of months in the academic term.
- Expenses: Living: Enter the estimated cost of living for the number of months in the academic term.
- Expenses: Dependent: Enter the estimated cost of maintaining the total number of dependents, if any, for the number of months in the academic term.
- Expenses: Other: Enter other expense amounts, if any, for the number of months in the academic term.
- Expenses: Other explanation: Enter the type of expense indicated as "other," if any. For example, "laptop computer."
- Funding: Personal: Enter the amount of personal funding that the student has verified. If a student has not provided any personal funding, you must indicate "0" in this field.
- Funding: School: Enter the amount of school funding, if any, that the student will receive.
- Funding: School Remarks: Enter the type of school funding that the student will receive. For example, "athletic scholarship."
- Funding: Other: Enter the amount of other funding, if any, that the student will receive.
- Funding: Other Remarks: Enter the type of other funding that the student will receive. For example, "UN scholarship" or "family funds."
- Funding: On-campus employment: Enter the amount of funding, if any, from on-campus employment that the student will receive.
- Select a saved query from this dropdown menu or single select a user for whom you will generate an initial Form I-20.
- Name, Visa Type, Program, and App Cycle will appear for each record displayed.
- Finally, click Submit to generate the SEVIS update records.
SEVIS Admin: Activities > Students > Add Student (F/M) on Add Student, Request Initial I-20, and Template pages. DSOs need to quickly confirm that a student’s estimated funding meets or fails to meet the estimated costs for the purpose of the Form I-20. Running, dynamically calculated totals will display in the right margin. Funding and expenses will automatically display in the SEVIS Profile for F-1 students.
You will then be able to verify your initial I-20 creation requests on the next screen, and from there, submit them to SEVIS in a batch.